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MySQL 8 Cookbook

MySQL 8 Cookbook

By : Karthik Appigatla
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MySQL 8 Cookbook

MySQL 8 Cookbook

3.5 (4)
By: Karthik Appigatla

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the World today. The recently released MySQL 8 version promises to be better and more efficient than ever before. This book contains everything you need to know to be the go-to person in your organization when it comes to MySQL. Starting with a quick installation and configuration of your MySQL instance, the book quickly jumps into the querying aspects of MySQL. It shows you the newest improvements in MySQL 8 and gives you hands-on experience in managing high-transaction and real-time datasets. If you've already worked with MySQL before and are looking to migrate your application to MySQL 8, this book will also show you how to do that. The book also contains recipes on efficient MySQL administration, with tips on effective user management, data recovery, security, database monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and more. With quick solutions to common and not-so-common problems you might encounter while working with MySQL 8, the book contains practical tips and tricks to give you the edge over others in designing, developing, and administering your database effectively.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Creating databases


Well, you have installed MySQL 8.0 and connected to it. Now it is time to store some data in it, that's what the database is meant for, after all. In any relational database management system (RDBMS), data is stored in rows, which is the basic building block of the database. Rows contain columns in which we can store several set of values.

For example, if you want to store information about your customers in a database.

Here is the dataset:

customer id=1, first_name=Mike, last_name=Christensen country=USA
customer id=2, first_name=Andy, last_name=Hollands, country=Australia
customer id=3, first_name=Ravi, last_name=Vedantam, country=India
customer id=4, first_name= Rajiv, last_name=Perera, country=Sri Lanka

You should save them as rows: (1, 'Mike', 'Christensen', 'USA'), (2, 'Andy', 'Hollands', 'Australia'), (3, 'Ravi', 'Vedantam', 'India'), (4, 'Rajiv', 'Perera', 'Sri Lanka'). For this dataset, there are four rows described by three columns (id, first_name, last_name and...

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