Mysql

Introduction

In the structure of MySQL, there are databases, tables, records, and fields. Databases hold together tables, tables hold together records, records hold together fields, which contain the actual information.

Mysql

Useful commands

• Grant access to mysql database.

mysql> grant all privileges on puppetdb.* to puppet@"localhost" identified by 'puppet';

• Change root password.

mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'

• Create user and grant accsess.

mysql> GRANT [privileges] ON database.* TO '[user]'@'[host]' IDENTIFIED BY '[password]';

• backup all databases.

mysqldump --all-databases -p > /temp/mysql

• Create database.

mysql> create database puppetdb;

• Delete mysql database.

mysql> drop database puppetdb;

• Create table.

This creates table with thwo colums, id with datatype int, and data of the type varchar.
mysql> create table testtable (id int, data varchar(100));
mysql> CREATE TABLE developers ( name VARCHAR(128), email VARCHAR(128), job VARCHAR(128));

• Connect to mysql database.

mysql -u root -p password -h mysqlhost

• Show databases.

mysql> show databases;

• Choose database to work with.

mysql> use puppetdb;

• Show tables.

mysql> show tables;

• Show columns in table.

mysql> show columns from hosts;

• Show which data is stored in a table in descending order limit to 100.

mysql> select * from hosts order by id desc limit 100;

• Show all data from table.

mysql> select * from hosts;

• Show values from one column.

mysql> select id from hosts;

• Show selected colums.

mysql> select name,ip from hosts;

• Show all ip in ascending order.

mysql> select * from hosts order by ip asc;

• Show column page_title in table page where page_counter is equal to 17.

mysql> select page_title from page where page_counter='17';
mysql> select page_title from page where page_counter='17' and page_is_new='1'; # and page_is_new equal to 1.

• Show column where page_counter is max in table page. Other values are min, avg, sum

mysql> select max(page_counter) from page;

• How many rows are on the table.

mysql> select count(page_counter) from page;
mysql> select count(*) from page;

• Commands.

mysql> exit;quit;                # exit mysql tool.
mysql> help;                     # Show help
mysql> source /file              # Run sql code. Offen used to setup database.
mysql> system command            # Run command in system.
mysql> status;                   # Shows status of database server.
mysql> describe table;           # Show information about table.
mysql> show create table table   # Show more information about table.

• Putt some data into a table.

mysql> INSERT INTO testtable (id,data) VALUES ('66','The beast whas here');

• Change id value 17 to 18 in testtable

mysql> UPDATE testtable set id=18 where id=17 ;

Data types

• Numerical, signed=could be negative,unsigned

type		Maxvalue
tinyint	255
smallint	65535
mediumint	16777215
int		4294967295
bigint		18446744073709551615

• Strings

type			Maxvalue
varchar		255
char			255
tinyblob,tinytext	256
blob,text		65536
mediumblob,mediumtext	16777216
longblob,longtext	4294967296

• Special

date
timestamp

• Access types.

ALL 		- Gives the all privilege control for the database
CREATE		- Allows users to create tables
SELECT		- Allows users to query tables
INSERT		- Allows users to insert data into a table
SHOW DATABASES	- Allows users to see a list of databases
USAGE		- User has no privileges
GRANT OPTION	- Allows users to grant privileges