Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 21 Days, Second Edition

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Day 7. Inserting and Updating Data

Now that you have learned how to set up and manipulate MySQL databases and tables, today you will learn how to get data into them. In particular, you will learn:

How to get data into your database (using INSERT and REPLACE)
How to perform modifications on your data (using UPDATE)
How to import data from text files, using mysql, mysqlimport, and LOAD DATA INFILE

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