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How to Manage MySQL Database with Commands

In this article, you will get some information on how to mange MySQL database with commands on a Command Line Interface.

Alibaba Cloud offers highly-available on-demand MySQL, SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases as part of their ApsaraDB for RDS (Relational Database Service), you can manage your Alibaba MySQL databases from a Command Line Interface (CLI) on an Alibaba Cloud instance.

First make sure you have created a whitelist group for the IP address of the computer if you are connecting to ApsaraDB for RDS. Once you are connected to your MySQL database, you can execute SQL (Structured Query Language) commands to manage your MySQL instance including creating; users, databases, tables, columns/fields. You can also perform CRUD (Create Read Update and Delete) operations on any database table.

MySQL Show databases command

You can run the command below to view the available databases on your Alibaba MySQL server;

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| sys                |
+--------------------+
4 rows in set (0.01 sec)

MySQL Create Database Command

To create a database on your Alibaba MySQL server, use the command below:

mysql> create database test1;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

Remember to replace 'sample2' with the preferred name of your database.

Switching Between Databases in MySQL

You can switch from one database to another one in MySQL via the 'use' command. For instance, to switch to the database that you created above, use the command below:

mysql> use test1
Database changed

MySQL Create Table Command

Once you switch to a database, you can create tables using the syntax below;

create table  (field1 datatype, field2 datatype)

MySQL supports a wide range of data types and you can refer to a complete list here

You should use the correct data type depending on the needs of your application.

For instance, to create a table named students with two fields (student_id and student_name), we can use the syntax below:

mysql> CREATE TABLE students (id INT NOT NULL, student_name VARCHAR (30) NOT NULL);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

MySQL Show Tables Command

To view all tables from the selected database, use the syntax below:

mysql> show tables;
+-----------------+
| Tables_in_test1 |
+-----------------+
| students        |
+-----------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

MySQL Describe Table Command

To get the structure of the table that you have created above, you can use the below SQL statement;

mysql> describe students;
+--------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field        | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| id           | int(11)     | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| student_name | varchar(30) | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
+--------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
2 rows in set (0.02 sec)

You can manage records and MySQL database users on a MySQL database table via the command line. For details, you can go to this tutorial.

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In this tutorial, we will go over the different MySQL joins that you can implement on your application to craft better, faster, optimized and high performing databases on Alibaba Cloud.

A join occurs when two or more tables are joined in an SQL statement. We are going to discuss three types of MySQL joins in this guide:

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In this guide, we will show you how you can store binary data on your MySQL database either hosted with Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB or provisioned on an ECS instance.

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  4. LONGBLOB: Stores up to 4,294,967,295 bytes of data.

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