MySQL Baics - Texas Linxufest beginners tutorial May 31st, 2019

Hello!
I am Dave Stokes
I am MySQL Community Manager and have been using MySQL for over 20
years.
@Stoker david.stokes @oracle.com
Slides at slideshare.net/davidmstokes and
github.com/davidmstokes/tutorials
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MySQL is a relational database & a NoSQL JSON Document Database
• Community Edition – Free to use
• Enterprise Edition – Starts at $5K/4 core
CPU before discounts
• You MUST buy a license if you ship MYSQL
with your product
GNU Public Licenses Version 2
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0.Data
How do ‘we’ remember

Relational Databases
• Data is split up into tables
• Tables can have relations
• customer_id column in customer data
and order data for common operations
• Rich number of operations that can be
performed on the data

Structured query language (SQL)
• Kinda of like English (does not always make sense)
• VERBS
• SELECT to ask questions
• INSERT to add data
• DELETE to remove data
• UPDATE to, well, update data
• SELECT name, phone FROM friends WHERE name = ‘Dave’;
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POP Quiz -- SQL Verbs
How do you pick out data?
How do you correct data?
How do you add data?
How do you remove data?
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X
X
X
X

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SELECT
X
X
X

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SELECT
UPDATE
X
X

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SELECT
UPDATE
INSERT
X

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SELECT
UPDATE
INSERT
DELETE

Data stored in rows within a table
• Tables have rows of data
• Tables made up of columns
• Similar to a spreadsheet
Multiple tables per schema
• Database/schema often used
interchangeably in MySQL
• You can have multiple schemas
per server
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Column A Column B
data data
data data

1.Installation
Choices - choices

Not actually installing software
If you have a copy of the MySQL server and a client program please feel
free to follow along. But there are too many variable to get everyone
up and running in the allotted time.

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads
• Linux
• Apt Repo for Debian based systems
• YUM repo for Redhat-ish systems
• Binaries
• Mac OS
• Windows
• Installer
• Binaries
• Source Code
• Docker
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Make sure it is MySQL
• Some Linux distributions switched to MariaDB, a
fork of MySQL created when Oracle took over
MySQL and will NOT give you MySQL when you ask
for it. MariaDB is not a drop in replacement for
MySQL and lacks many features that you may want
that are in MySQL only.
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Using the MySQL apt repo
• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-apt-repo-quick-guide/en/
• Go to the download page for the MySQL APT repository at
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/
• shell> sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-conﬁg_w.x.y-z_all.deb
• shell> sudo apt-get update
• shell> sudo apt-get install mysql-server
• shell> sudo service mysql start
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Using the MySQL RPM repo
• Go to the download page for MySQL Yum repository at
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/
• shell> sudo rpm -Uvh mysql80-community-release-el6-n.noarch.rpm
• shell> sudo yum install mysql-community-server
• shell> sudo systemctl start mysqld.service
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Other installation notes
• Refer to the MySQL documentation at https://dev.mysql.com for help
with your installation
• The MySQL demo databases are found at
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html
• You may want the mysql cli client (mysql), mysql shell (mysqlsh), and
MySQL Workbench => please drop by MySQL table in expo area for a
demo!!
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2. Communicating with the MySQL server
Choices - choices

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Most people think as the database residing on a
server somewhere in a computer room (or the cloud)
and the client as a laptop or desktop computer.
This is called the client server model of computing.
BTW databases run just fine on laptops too !

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I recommend installing you favorite
Linux on an older laptop and using the
MySQL Repositories to learn MySQL

Starting the server
• The mysqld program (MySQL Daemon) runs in the background on your
Linux system. It normally listens on port 3306 (and the new NoSQL
service listens on port 33060) for programs wanting to communicate
with it
• The command line program to talk to the mysqld daemon is named mysql
• $ mysql –u user -p
PASSWORD: ********
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The mysql client Example
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mysql - cli program
-u texas00 - user
-p - ask for password

The new MySQl Shell or mysqlsh
• MySQL 8.0 has another shell named mysqlsh
• $ mysqlsh
• Features
• Command completion
• Improved help facility
• Three modes – JavaScript, Python & SQL
• Utility functions for admin work
• Check for server upgrade, JSON bulk
loader, Cluster Administration
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3. First Data Set
Simple sample data

World data
• Used for MySQL documentation, tutorials, training, etcetera
• Out of date data but still useful for illustration purposes
• Download from https://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html
• Extract the data with $gunzip world.sql.gz
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• $mysql u root –p < world.sql
This has already been done in demo accounts
But documented for those using the notes later!
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Explanation
• mysql –u root –p < world.sql
• mysql is the name of the cli program
• -u root tells server we want to use
the account as the user root
• -p is used if the account has a
password and the password will be
asked from you
• < world.sql the < command on the
Linux shell redirects input from the
file named world.sql into the mysql
cli program
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The use command
• The MySQL server can support many databases (proper term is
schemas) and need to be told which one you want to use. We just
created a schema named world when we loaded data.
• $ mysql –u <account> –p
Password: ******
• mysql> USE world;
Database changed;
mysql>
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Uppercase/Lowercase
• The MySQL server is case insensitive for commands if your operating
system is also case insensitive. For illustration SQL commands will be in
UPPERCASE and the stuﬀ you need to type is in bold.
• $ mysql –u root –p
Password: ******
• mysql> USE world;
Database changed
• mysql> SHOW SCHEMAS;
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QUICK quiz
In a relational database,
the data is organized within _________
and the data is kept in _______
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QUICK quiz
In a relational database,
the data is organized within SCHEMAS (or databases)
and the data is kept in TABLES
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4.Structured Query Language
How to ask a database questions

Entity Relationship Map of world schema
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the city and countrycode tables have been set up with a CountryCode column to relate to the
code column in the countrytable’s
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SQL or structured query language
• Designed in the 1970s
• Minimize data duplication
• Set theory and relational calculus
• When disks and memory were EXPENSIVE
• Still used today extensively
• Divided into two parts
• Data Deﬁnition Language or DDL
• What the data looks like (Integer, Text, JSON, Geometry, …)
• Data Manipulation Language
• Looking at the data or DML
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The basic commands -> Think verbs (action words)
• SELECT
• Get data from a table
• INSERT
• Put data into the table
• UPDATE
• Change data in a table
• DELETE
• Remove data in a table
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We covered
these ‘verbs’
earlier and they
are the core of
most queries
that you will ever
write.

Our First query
mysql> SELECT * FROM city LIMIT 1;
• SELECT – ask server for data
• * - Wildcard for all columns in a row of data
• FROM city - the name of the table we want to use
• (case must match)
• LIMIT 1 – We want a maximum of one row of data
• ; - Tells the server we are done with this command and it can be run.
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Wildcards:
* = all columns in a table
% = Matches 1 or more characters
%name matches
ﬁrst_name and last_name
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Our First query
+----+-------+-------------+----------+------------+
+----+-------+-------------+----------+------------+
| 1 | Kabul | AFG | Kabol | 1780000 |
+----+-------+-------------+----------+------------+
mysql>
The first record has the fields ID,
Name, CountryCode, District, and
Population fields for the city of Kabul
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Our First query
+----+-------+-------------+----------+------------+
+----+-------+-------------+----------+------------+
| 1 | Kabul | AFG | Kabol | 1780000 |
+----+-------+-------------+----------+------------+
mysql>
Note that some columns are numbers
only and some are alphanumeric
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Experiment
What happens if you do not use LIMIT 1 ???
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Experiment
What happens if you do not use LIMIT 1 ???
You get to see 4079 rows!
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What if we want to get more speciﬁc?
• We only want the city name
• And those cities need to be in Texas
• * We will cheat and assume that somehow we know that cities in Texas
are designated by having the district column = Texas
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The query
• mysql> SELECT name FROM city WHERE
DISTRICT = 'Texas';
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The query –Also acceptable
• mysql> SELECT name
FROM city
WHERE DISTRICT = 'Texas';
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Readability is VERY important
and you may prefer to break the
query up over several lines.

The query
• mysql> SELECT name FROM city WHERE
DISTRICT = 'Texas';
• SELECT name - Ask for the name column data
• FROM city - The table with the data
• WHERE - Specify constraints
• DISTRICT = ‘Texas’ - The constraint
• ; - Done with the query
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WHERE -- The clause to narrow down your search
The WHERE clause in a SQL query is used to narrow down the query to the
speciﬁc record(s).
WHERE age > 21
WHERE customer_id = 26378 AND amount_due > 0
WHERE seat_row BETWEEN 2 AND 3
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Sort by the name of the city
SELECT name
FROM city AS city_name
WHERE DISTRICT = 'Texas'
ORDER BY name;
FROM city AS
city_name tells the
server we want to
alias the name
column as refer to
is as city_name
ORDER BY name tells the
server we want the results
SORTED by the column
name
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Experiment
What happens if you use ORDER BY name DESC???
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Experiment
What happens if you use ORDER BY name DESC???
The results are sorted in DESCending order, W-A
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5. JOINing tables
How to get data from two tables (or more)

Normalizing data
Splitting up the various pieces of data into separate tables is called normalizing.
So the details on a customer are kept in a customer table and their order
information is stored in a order table.
So by using the customer ID number from the customer table, yoy can look up
their orders on the order table
SELECT * FROM orders
WHERE customer_id = 35882;
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Relational tables
• Data is ‘normalized’ to group similar information together
• Diﬀerent tables hold diﬀerent sets of information
• The world schema has three tables
• City information – city
• Country information – country
• Country languages - countrylanguage

World Schema Entity Relationship Map
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Someone has set up the
tables so that they link
through a column that is in
all three of the schemas!
Both the city and
countrylangauge tables
have columns named
CountryCode that match
up with the Code column in
the country table.

country Table
code
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Keys between tables
countrylanguage table
countrycode
city table
countrycodeWe can cross reference data in
different tables with a column that
have a common value or values

country Table
code
= ‘USA’
(1 entry)
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Keys between tables
countrylanguage table
countrycode = ‘USA’
(1 or more entry)
city table
countrycode = ‘USA’
(1 or more entry
If we wanted to find all the records
that mention ‘USA’ we would find one
record in the country table and one
or more entries in the city and
countryinfo tables.

JOINing two tables together
mysql> SELECT City.name, - ask for the name from city
Country.name AS Country - ask for the name from country
FROM City ‘alias’ name as Country
JOIN Country on - match the two tables
(City.countrycode = Country.code)
WHERE City.name = 'Irving'; - for the record that matches
+--------+---------------+ the city of Irving
| name | Country |
+--------+---------------+
| Irving | United States |
+--------+---------------+
mysql>
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Joins can be complex
Joins let you drill down precisely to the desired
information
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Complex Example – you can work up to this!!
SELECT
CONCAT(customer.last_name, ', ', customer.first_name) AS customer,
address.phone,
film.title
FROM rental
INNER JOIN customer ON rental.customer_id =
customer.customer_id
INNER JOIN address ON customer.address_id = address.address_id
INNER JOIN inventory ON rental.inventory_id =
inventory.inventory_id
INNER JOIN film ON inventory.film_id = film.film_id
WHERE rental.return_date IS NULL
AND
rental_date + INTERVAL film.rental_duration DAY <
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Break number one
Fifteen minutes and no more please!!
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6. Data Deﬁnition Language
Creating your own table
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CREATE TABLE
mysql> CREATE TABLE foo (
-> id INT,
-> name CHAR(20)
-> );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec)
mysql>

CREATE TABLE
-> id INT,
-> name CHAR(20)
-> );
mysql>
This creates a table named foo that has
two columns – id for integer data, and
name for character data.

Data types
MySQL has several types of data to meet you needs
• Numeric
• Character (usually a-zA-Z & special characters like @#&!)
• Date/Time
• String
• JSON documents
• Spatial (Graphic Information, think GPS)
• We will deal only with INT and CHAR() types (for now)
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The next few slides are for illustration
Do not worry of these details are too much for now
I just want to show that there are many diﬀerent types of data that
can be stored in a database
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Numeric
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Type Storage
(BYTES)
Minimum
Singed Value
Minimum
Unsigned
Value
Maximum
Signed Value
Maximum
Unsigned
Value
TINYINT 1 -128 0 127 366
SMALLINT 2 -32768 0 32767 65535
MEDIUMINT 3 -8388608 0 8388607 16777215
INT 4 -2147483648 0 2147483647 4294967295
BIGINT 8 -263 0 263-1 264-1

Textual
• CHAR(n) – Holds characters A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*() plus more
• VARCHAR(n) – Variable length version, extra space need to note length
• Where n is the number of character to be held.
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CREATE TABLE - revisited
-> id INT,
-> name CHAR(10)
-> );
mysql>
This is an example of the Data Definition Language (DDL) to
create a table. The table has two columns – id & name – to store
data.

What happens if a name is longer
than 10 characters?
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What happens if a name is longer
than 10 characters?
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mysql> INSERT INTO foo (id,name) VALUES (1,'ThisNameIsTooLong');
ERROR 1406 (22001): Data too long for column 'name' at row 1

INSERT INTO foo (id,name) VALUES (1,‘Dave');
• INSERT – the action we want to perform
• INTO foo – where the data is going – a TABLE named ‘foo’
• (id,name) – specify the columns to be ﬁlled
• VALUES - ‘What comes next is the data we want to store in ‘foo’
• (1,’Dave’) - the data
• ; - designates ‘end of query’
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Let’s add some data
mysql> INSERT INTO foo (id,name) VALUES (1,'Dave');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)
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mysql> SELECT id, name FROM foo;
+------+------+
| id | name |
+------+------+
| 1 | Dave |
+------+------+
mysql>
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mysql> SELECT id, name FROM foo;
+------+------+
| id | name |
+------+------+
| 1 | Dave |
+------+------+
mysql>
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EXERCISE -> Follow along
• Start your MySQL Client
• Create a schema named ‘texas’
msqyl>CREATE SCHEMA texas;
• ‘Point’ to that schema
mysql>USE texas;
• Create table from previous slide
• Input some data using your name or nickname (under 10 characters and
your lucky number
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-> id INT,
-> name CHAR(20)
-> );

Inputting data
• INSERT INTO foo (id,name) VALUES (1,'Dave');
• INSERT INTO – The action we want to do
foo - the table we want to store data
(id,name) - the data fields
VALUES - tells server data is next
(1,'Dave'); - the actual data
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Looking at the data we just stored
SELECT id, name FROM foo;
SELECT id FROM foo;
SELECT name FROM foo;
SELECT name, id FROM foo;
SELECT * FROM foo; -- * is a wildcard
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What we have learned, command wise
• INSERT
• SELECT
• CREATE schema
• CREATE table
• USE schema
• SHOW SCHEMAS;
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Modify the table by adding another column
mysql> ALTER TABLE foo ADD COLUMN zip char(5);
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
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Why a char over an INTEGER?
Unless you specify most numeric values will
truncate leading zeros so it is often better to
have data such as zipcodes that WILL HAVE
leading zeros as characters to ensure you keep
those leading zeros!
Stuﬀ Alex Trebeck Will Not EVER ask ME
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ALTER TABLE foo ADD COLUMN zip char(5);
ALTER TABLE -- Task to be done, adding column
foo -- The name of table to ALTER
ADD COLUMN -- What action to be done
zip -- Name of the new column
char(5) -- What type of data needed
; -- ; is the end of query
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Create a second table
And add a PRIMARY key

PEts!
What if you wanted to track pets in your neighborhood?
What information would you want to keep?
Name
Type
Owner
?
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Normalize data
Name -- How many characters do we need to save names?
How about for the other ﬁelds?
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Create table
CREATE TABLE pets (
);
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Here is where we deﬁne that columns
we need to store the data we want to
keep!

Switch to demo screen
For those of you downloading the slides, this part of the tutorial is a live
demo of creating the table for the pets data.
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Indexes also know as a key
• Without an index the entire database/ﬁle needs to be read to ﬁnd the
data, pronounced ‘s l o w’!
• An index on a column lets you go directly to the matching column(s)
• By default, MySQL wants an index and will create one for you if you do
not have one
• And it usually picks one that you do not want
• And its pick may not be the best for performance
• So pick you own column or columns to index
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CREATE TABLE pets2 (
id INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
name CHAR(25),
type CHAR(20),
breed CHAR(25),
owner CHAR(30),
contact CHAR(50));

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CREATE TABLE pets2 (
id INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
name CHAR(25),
type CHAR(20),
breed CHAR(25),
owner CHAR(30),
contact CHAR(50));

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What is PRIMARy KEY?
The primary key is the main index on a table
Hopefully this is a column that you will want/need to search on later

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What is AUTO_INCReMENT?
Every time you add a record to a table with an autoincrement column, the
number is AUTOMATICALLY incremented
• When inserting data either do not name that column
• Or pass a NULL for the value

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mysql>INSERT INTO pets2 (id,name)
VALUES (NULL,'Bob'), (NULL,'Kitty');
Records: 2 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
mysql> SELECT id,name FROM pets2;
+----+-------+
| id | name |
+----+-------+
| 1 | Bob |
| 2 | Kitty |
+----+-------+
The server
automatically assigned
the values for the id
column.

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CREATE TABLE timekeeper (x INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
ts TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
dt DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
);

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INSERT INTO timekeeper (x) VALUES (NULL);
SELECT * FROM timekeeper;
+---+---------------------+---------------------+
| x | ts | dt |
+---+---------------------+---------------------+
| 1 | 2019-05-18 09:35:16 | 2019-05-18 09:35:16 |
+---+---------------------+---------------------+

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ALTER TABLE timekeeper ADD COLUMN y INT DEFAULT 0;
UPDATE timekeeper SET y=1 WHERE x=1;
Rows matched: 1 Changed: 1 Warnings: 0
SELECT * FROM timekeeper;
+---+---------------------+---------------------+---+
| x | ts | dt | y |
+---+---------------------+---------------------+---+
| 1 | 2019-05-18 09:38:22 | 2019-05-18 09:38:22 | 1 |
+---+---------------------+---------------------+---+
Note the time changed from 9:35 to 9:38

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Differences between datestamp and time stamp
DATETIME values is
'1000-01-01 00:00:00.000000' to '9999-12-31
23:59:59.999999',
TIMESTAMP values is
'1970-01-01 00:00:01.000000' to '2038-01-19
03:14:07.999999'

Software
Download MySQL Server, MySQL
Workbench, and test data
Where to learn more
Books
Go to Half-Price Books and ﬁnd a
book on MySQL
Or go online -> google ‘mysql intro’
And look at www.mysql.com
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There is a big demand for
DBAs and Devs that know
Databases
A complex idea can be conveyed
with just a single still image,
namely making it possible to
absorb large amounts of data
quickly.
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“You learn more database
concepts by ‘breaking things’ and
learning how to ﬁx them then by
just reading the manual”
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Some other things that novices will run into that need some extra
explanation
Data Concepts

Think: Bank taking funds from Customer A to pay Customer B
TRANSACTION
1. Does Customer A have enough funds to cover?
2. Place holds on the accounts for Customer A & Customer B to keep other
transactions from interfering with this transaction
3. Withdraw MONEY from Customer A
4. Deposit MONEY into Customer B’s account
5. Remove holds on both account
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Transactions

Locking records
• Records are LOCKed to keep others from changing values in row
• Others will have to wait for locks to be released (called BLOCKING)
• You can lock records in many ways
• SHARED
• EXCLUSIVE
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Thanks!
Any questions?
You can ﬁnd me at @stoker david.stokes @oracle.com
Slideshare.net/davidmstokes
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