Outdated: Creating First Table in MySQL 4.0

MySQL Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 4.20, by Dr. Herong Yang

MySQL Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Outdated: Creating First Table in MySQL 4.0

A tutorial example is provided on how to verify a new installation of 4.0.18 by creating a new test table and insert some data to the table.

In the previous section, we learned how to start and shutdown MySQL server. Now let's see how we can use MySQL client interface to create a table and run queries. First start the MySQL server in one command window, then run the start the MySQL client interface in another command window, and run the following MySQL client commands:

\mysql\bin\mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 4.0.18-max-debug

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show databases;
+----------+
| Database |
+----------+
| mysql    |
| test     |
+----------+
2 rows in set (0.06 sec)

mysql> use test;
Database changed
mysql> show tables;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

mysql> create table hello (message varchar(80));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.58 sec)

mysql> insert into hello (message) values ('Hello world!');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.38 sec)

mysql> select * from hello;
+--------------+
| message      |
+--------------+
| Hello world! |
+--------------+
1 row in set (0.04 sec)

mysql> drop table hello;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.34 sec)

mysql> quit;
Bye

Last update: 2015.

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