Introduction to Databases for the Web: Pt. 1 - Page 9
August 16, 1998
Logging on to the Database
It is important to note that for most databases,
you will actually need to log on. That is, most databases implement
a security system that gives various users different privileges to do
different things such as
Most likely, your database administrator will have provided you with a login name and a password. She will also have either provided you with the net address of the database so you can log in remotely, or has given you a direct command line shell.
Once you are logged in to a database, you can begin to populate the database with data or extract already existing data. Let's look first at populating the database.
Okay, let's define a simple relational database that we can use to practice with...
We will define a database called "