Connecting To Your Database : Introduction « Introduction « MySQL Tutorial

1.	Introduction
2.	Select Query
3.	Database
4.	Table
5.	Table Join
6.	Subquery
7.	Insert Update Delete
8.	Logic Operator
9.	View
10.	Data Types
11.	Procedure Function
12.	Cursor
13.	Trigger
14.	Date Time Functions
15.	Comparison Functions Operators
16.	Aggregate Functions
17.	Cast Functions Operators
18.	Control Flow Functions
19.	Encryption Compression Functions
20.	Information Functions
21.	Math Numeric Functions
22.	Miscellaneous Functions
23.	String Functions
24.	Regular Expressions
25.	Data Dictionary
26.	MySQL Utilities
27.	Privilege

1.1.1.Connecting To Your Database

In order to log into MySQL we must pass information to the MySQL client program when we start it.

This is done with the following commands and syntax.

c:\mysql\bin\mysql -u <mysql_username> -p <password> <database name>

The name of the program (mysql) is followed by the User flag (-u), the Password (-p) and finally the name of the database.

c:\mysql\bin\mysql -u yourUserName -p mypass databaseName

If we omit the password but still leave the password flag (-p), you will be prompted for it.

$ mysql -u yourUserName -p yourDatabaseName
Enter password:

You could also omit the name of the database as well.

$ mysql -u yourUserName -p
Enter password:

You could choose to select a specific database if your user has privileges on different databases.

mysql> use yourDatabaseName
Database changed

1.1.Introduction
	1.1.1.	Connecting To Your Database
	1.1.2.	To test whether a connection can even be made, execute the command STATUS.
	1.1.3.	Keywords may be entered in any lettercase.
	1.1.4.	You can use mysql as a simple calculator:
	1.1.5.	Database, table, index, column, and alias names are identifiers.

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