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62-8 Industrial Communication Systems
TABLE 62.1
SQL Database Table
Last Name First Name Employee Department Employee ID
Rives John Sales 2
Tent Tom Accounts 1
Hold Tim Technical 5
After installing MySQL server, open command line to run the MySQL client program. To connect to
your MySQL server, here’s what you should type:
mysql -h -u -p
If you installed and typed everything properly, the MySQL client program will introduce itself and
then take you to the MySQL command line:
mysql>
If at any time you want to exit the MySQL client program, just type “quit” or “exit.”
62.4.1 Creating a Database
To create a database and use it, type the following command (don’t forget the semicolon), then ENTER.
Ex:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE databasename;
mysql> USE databasename;
mysql> CREATE DATABASE employee;
mysql> USE employee;
To see a list of databases available, type the following command, then ENTER.
mysql> SHOW DATABASES;
62.4.2 Creating a Table
To create a table, use the “CREATE TABLE” statement.
Syntax:
CREATE TABLE (
column_name1 data_type,
column_name2 data_type,
);
Example:
mysql> CREATE TABLE employeeinfo (
LastName varchar(15),
FirstName varchar(15),
Department varchar(15),
Employee_ID int
);
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