This document provides instructions for installing and getting started with MySQL. It discusses downloading MySQL or using XAMPP/LAMP, connecting to MySQL from the command line, issuing basic commands like SELECT and QUIT, and finding help documentation. The goal is to create a simple database with tables, insert/update/delete data, and write basic and advanced SQL queries including joins, aggregates, and subqueries.

1. MySQL

2. Installation
• LAMP or XAMPP
• MySQL Essential

3. WEBSITE
• (http://www.mysql.com/) –Provides latest
information

4. Theme
• Create a simple relational database in MySQL.
• Insert, update and delete data the tables.
• Create queries using basic and advanced SELECT
statements
• Perform join operations on relational tables
• Use aggregate functions in SQL
• Write subqueries
• Create views of the database

5. Starting MySQL
• Before starting into MySQL, you must obtain a
user ID and a password created by your database
administrator in order to log on to the MySQL
RDBMS.
• How you connect to the MySQL database
depends on how the MySQL software was
installed on your server

6. To start MySQL you would:
• 1. Select the Start button
• 2. Select All Programs and then MySQL
• 3. Select MySQL Server 5.0
• 4. Click on the MySQL Command line client
• 1. Goto search-> Type cmd -> choose the
appropriate location(where the user originally
save the mySQL package in the local hard disk)

9. Important Notice
• Before login into the mySQL start the Apache and
mySQL service in the server(XAMPP)

11. Getting Started into mySQL

12. Where:
• -u – user
• -p – identified by password
• Mysql –h host –u user -p
• Mysql> h -help

13. • sql> help contents - A full list of help topics available through the command line can be found
• Example
• mysql> help Data Definition;
• You asked for help about help category: "Data Definition"
• For more information, type 'help <item>', where <item> is one of the following
• topics:
• ALTER DATABASE
• ALTER EVENT
• ALTER FUNCTION
• ALTER PROCEDURE
• ALTER SERVER
• ALTER TABLE
• ALTER VIEW DROP PROCEDURE
• DROP SERVER
• DROP TABLE
• DROP TRIGGER
• DROP VIEW
• RENAME TABLE
• TRUNCATE TABLE
• mysql>

15. Quit
• Mysql> Quit
• (OR)
• Ctrl+D

16. • mysql> SELECT VERSION(), CURRENT_DATE;
• +-----------------+--------------+
• | VERSION() | CURRENT_DATE |
• +-----------------+--------------+
• | 5.1.2-alpha-log | 2005-10-11 |
• +-----------------+--------------+

17. • mysql> SELECT VERSION(); SELECT NOW();
• 6
• +-----------------+
• | VERSION() |
• +-----------------+
• | 5.1.2-alpha-log |
• +-----------------+
• 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
• +---------------------+
• | NOW() |
• +---------------------+
• | 2005-10-11 15:15:00 |
• +---------------------+
• 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

18. • mysql> SELECT USER()
• -> ;
• +---------------+
• | USER() |
• +---------------+
• | james@localhost |
• +---------------+