MariaDB -- MySQL

This repository consists of the basics of MySQL(using MariaDB) on Linux Operating System(CentOS). MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system, intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU GPL. This repository focusses on 'SQL' and not 'NoSQL'.

What is a database?

A database is an organized collection of data, generally stored and accessed by firing certain queries(commands) from an computer system.

Starting MariaDB

On terminal do the following:

$ sudo systemctl start mariadb.service

You'll be prompted for the password to start mariadb service. To check its status:

$ systemctl status mariadb.service

You will get something like this

If you get this it means that the MariaDB service is running.

Incase you get an Error due to firewall you can disable the firewall by using the following command:

To check status of firewall:

sudo systemctl status firewalld

To stop firewall:

sudo systemctl stop firewalld

Next, it's time to log in into the database.

$ mysql -u username -p

You will be prompted to enter the passoword for the database. After you enter the password you know you are into MariaDB when you see the following below.

MariaDB [(none)]> 

The [(none)] means that you are not using any database (we don't have one yet!). Let's create one.

Using MariaDB

Create database:

MariaDB [(none)]> create database db_name;

See all existing databases:

MariaDB [(none)]> show databases;

Use created database:

MariaDB [(none)]> use db_name;

Creating a table into the database:

Let's create a Employee table with the following coloumns : ID -> Integer which will be a primary key(cannot have duplicate ID's) and auto increment, Name -> String(varchar), Department -> String(varchar), Salary -> Float.

MariaDB [(db_name)]> create table employee(id int auto_increment primary key,name varchar(20), department varchar(20), salary float);

Table name created is 'employee'.

Adding an entry into the table:

 MariaDB [(db_name)]> insert into employee(id, name, department, salary) values(1,"James Borges","Electronics",58000.0);

All strings (varchar) should be entered into double quotes.

We can also make an entry by the following:

MariaDB [(db_name)]> insert into employee(name, department, salary) values("James Borges","Electronics",58000.0);

Even if the ID is not entered it will automatically be incremented by 1 from the highest ID in the table. If we do not enter a value for any column it will by default be taken as 'null' for that cell.

To see the full table:

MariaDB [(db_name)]> select * from employee

'*' means select all columns

Syntax for printing:

select column_name from table_name

when column name is '*' it will print all the columns.

Output will be a list of entries into the table:

If we want to print a particular column (say salary column):

select salary from table_name;

If you want to print multiple columns then write each column with a comma in between in place of column name.

Now say you want to fire a query to get the salary of a specific employee. We can search that in more than one way. For example if we want the salary of Eden Hazard we can find it in the following way:

   MariaDB [(db_name)]> select name,salary from employee where name = "Eden Hazard";

We can also search the name and salary with respect to ID

   MariaDB [(db_name)]> select name,salary from employee where id = 4;

Both these will give the same output as shown below but notice the way both the queries were fired one with respect to the name and the other with respect to the ID.

Note that the 'where' keyword allows us to display in cases of when you want to use a condition.

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These are the basic queries of databases. There are much more to this which you can explore.

I am open to feedback and if you feel that there should be some changes to the above document do let me know.