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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By : Karthik Appigatla
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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By: Karthik Appigatla

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the World today. The recently released MySQL 8 version promises to be better and more efficient than ever before. This book contains everything you need to know to be the go-to person in your organization when it comes to MySQL. Starting with a quick installation and configuration of your MySQL instance, the book quickly jumps into the querying aspects of MySQL. It shows you the newest improvements in MySQL 8 and gives you hands-on experience in managing high-transaction and real-time datasets. If you've already worked with MySQL before and are looking to migrate your application to MySQL 8, this book will also show you how to do that. The book also contains recipes on efficient MySQL administration, with tips on effective user management, data recovery, security, database monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and more. With quick solutions to common and not-so-common problems you might encounter while working with MySQL 8, the book contains practical tips and tricks to give you the edge over others in designing, developing, and administering your database effectively.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Inserting, updating, and deleting rows


The INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT operations are called Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements. INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE are also called write operations, or simply write(s). SELECT is a read operation and is simply called read(s).

How to do it...

Let's look at each of them in detail. I am sure you will enjoy learning this. I would suggest that you try a few things on your own as well, later. By the end of this recipe, we will also have gotten to grips with truncating tables.

Inserting

The INSERT statement is used to create new records in a table:

mysql> INSERT IGNORE INTO `company`.`customers`(first_name, last_name,country)
VALUES 
('Mike', 'Christensen', 'USA'),
('Andy', 'Hollands', 'Australia'),
('Ravi', 'Vedantam', 'India'),
('Rajiv', 'Perera', 'Sri Lanka');

Or you can explicitly mention the id column, if you want to insert the specific id:

mysql> INSERT IGNORE INTO `company`.`customers`(id, first_name, last_name,country)
VALUES 
(1,...