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Databases

Create and Populate Databases?

Hi guys.

I'm about to finish SQL Basics Course! So far so good but in this course we learn how to ACESS the contents of the tables and the data inside them in several ways but NOT how to CREATE our DATABASE from ZERO and how to POPULATE it from zero as well. Am I missing something here?

HOW/WHERE can I learn how to create and populate them from zero? What are your recommendations on this?

Thanks.

3 Answers

Ahmed Mohey
Ahmed Mohey
7,704 Points

Also If you are interested in having a sandbox or an example database you want to mess with I heard that someone ported the microsoft Adventure works database to Mysql you can download it from this link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/awmysql/

also there official example databases on mysql here : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html

Joel Bardsley
Joel Bardsley
31,249 Points

The Database Foundations course will get you started for creating and accessing databases (in this case MySQL) on your own machine, as well as creating tables.

A more recent course for inserting and modifying data in SQL can be found here: Modifying Data with SQL

Moderator Edit: Moved Response from Comment section to an Answer.

Thanks Joel. Such a great help! :)

Thanks Ahmed. Great help as well. Well done!