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Creating and Updating MySQL Tables

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After reading this chapter you should be able to:

  • use a MySQL command to create a database table

  • understand the various data types available in MySQL

  • construct an appropriate column definition for each field in a table

  • copy the structure and/or the contents of one table to another

  • find the structure of a table

change the structure, name and field specification of a table.

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Bramer, M. (2015). Creating and Updating MySQL Tables. In: Web Programming with PHP and MySQL. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22659-0_14

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