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Here you will learn some of the basics that will help you in your journey with MySQL.
Before we get our hands dirty with SQL commands, we need to go through some basic terminology.
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MySQL is what we call a DBMS, Database Management System.
By its name you can figure out that a DBMS is a software that manages the creation, maintenance and use of a database.
So, what is a database?
As its name indicates, a database is an organised collection of data. In other words, related data that is stored together.
For example, a video club, a library, and a shop could use databases to store information about their rentals, sales, customers, stock etc.
But still, how is the data organized inside a database?
Tables are smaller collections of related data.
Let's take the video club example. We already have the database which is called videoclub.
Inside this database we must store a number of different data. We will use tables.
We will create a table for our members, for the movies, for the movie categories, for the rentals, for pricing etc.
Each table holds specific information.
Now, a table consists out of columns. Each column can hold a single piece of data.
For example, the members table of our videoclub database would have some of the following columns:
first name, last name, birth date, registration date, address, city, post code etc.
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