This document provides instructions for interacting with a MySQL database using the MySQL command line client. It explains how to open the client, select a database, create tables, insert and retrieve data, update records, and delete records. The key steps are to open the MySQL client, select a database, connect to it, then use SQL statements like CREATE, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE to manage tables and data within the selected database.

1. Interacting with
My-SQL Database
By,
Vikas S Kumar
Software Engineer

2. • Go to start and type mysql
client
• Select MySQL Command
Line Client
• Press enter
• The client window opens
Select mysql client

3. Give the password (Which you had given while installing)

4. • Data base has to be created before creating table
• All your tables will be created inside the database
• You can create as many number of database as you want
• Command
• create database <data-Base-Name>;
• Eg : create database vikas;
Create data base

5. • To execute any queries first we need to connect to database
• After connecting to database we can execute any queries
• To create table
• Insert data
• Delete data
• Update data
• Connect to database
• syntax: connect <data-base-name>;
Connect to database

6. • Create table
Syntax : create table <table-name> (column_1_name
datatype (size),column_2_name datatype (size),….);

7. • Insert data
• Syntax : insert into <table-name>
values(‘value1’,’value1’,……)
• If you are inserting the string or alpha value the value
should be encoded inside the single quotes ‘ ‘ Eg: ‘vikas’
• If the value is numeric it can be written with out single
quotes.

8. • To display the data
• Select * from <table-name>;
• To display only name
• To display only name and rol number
• To display all columns

9. • Update
• Syntax : update <table-name> set <column-name>=NewValue where <column-
name>=value;
• After update

10. • Delete
• Syntax : delete from <table-name> where <column-
name>=value;
• After delete