MySQL Tutorial
MySQL is the most popular Open Source Relational SQL Database Management System.
MySQL is a database system used on the web and runs on a server
MySQL uses standard SQL and compiles on many platforms and with many languages including PHP, PERL, C, C++, JAVA, etc.
MySQL is fast, scalable, and easy to use database management
MySQL is commonly used in conjunction with PHP scripts for creating powerful and dynamic server-side or web-based enterprise applications.
MySQL is very friendly to PHP, the most appreciated language for web development.
We can query our database in several ways
User can access data from a relational database management system
Allows users to describe the data
Allows users to define the data in the database
Allows users to create and drop database and table
Allows users to create a view, stored procedure, function in a database.
Allows users to set permission on tables, procedures, and views
Allows users to retrieve, insert records, update records, delete records in database
RDBMS stands for Relational Database Management System
RDBMS is the basis for MySQL
Relational database means the data is stored as well as retrieved in the form of relations (tables).
let us revise a few definitions related to the database.
The standard MySQL commands to interact with relational databases are CREATE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and DROP.
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MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on the SQL (Structured Query Language) queries.
The following are the most important features of MySQL: