MySQL tutorial

1. Introduction
   1. About this tutorial
   2. MySQL database
   3. Definitions
   4. Tables used
   5. Sources
2. Installation
   1. Installation from sources
   2. Changing the root password
   3. Other settings
3. First steps
   1. Starting/stopping the server
   2. Connecting to the server
   3. Creating a database
   4. Creating a user
4. Quick MySQL tutorial
   1. The world database
   2. Examining the database
   3. Queries
5. Storage engines
   1. List of storage engines
   2. Choosing the right engine
   3. Specifying and altering storage engines
6. Data types
   1. Numbers
   2. Date & time
   3. Strings
7. Creating, altering and dropping tables
   1. CREATE and DROP statements
   2. ALTER TABLE statement
8. MySQL expressions
   1. Literal values
   2. Variables
   3. Operators
   4. Precedence and associativity
   5. Associativity
9. Inserting, updating and deleting data
   1. Inserting data
   2. Deleting data
   3. Updating data
10. The SELECT statement
    1. Retrieving data
    2. Limiting data output
    3. Ordering data
    4. Selecting specific rows with the WHERE clause
    5. Removing duplicate items
    6. Grouping data
11. Subqueries
12. Constraints
13. Exporting and importing data
    1. Simple data export
    2. Exporting to xml files
    3. Using mysqldump tool
14. Joining tables
    1. Inner joins
    2. Outer joins
    3. Natural joins
    4. Quick recap
15. MySQL functions
    1. Mathematical functions
    2. Aggregate functions
    3. String functions
    4. Date & time functions
    5. System functions
16. Views
    1. View definition
    2. Creating, modifying and dropping a view
    3. Finding views
    4. Creating a view with a union
17. Transactions
    1. Definition of transaction
    2. Isolation levels
    3. Autocommit
    4. Starting transactions
18. Stored routines
    1. A simple procedure
    2. A simple function
    3. Procedure parameters
    4. Random numbers
    5. Finding routines

This is MySQL tutorial. It covers the MySQL database engine and the SQL language supported by the database engine.

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