Let's Get Started with a MySQL Database!

  1. Use your favorite browser to open http://localhost/
  2. Click: PHPMyAdmin
  3. Login using root as the username and nothing as the password
  4. To create a ub database, click: New
  5. In the Create Database textbox type: ub
  6. Click: Create
  7. Click the SQL tab
  8. Copy the MySQL Database Template (SQL) code (below)
  9. Paste that code into the Run SQL Queries textfield
  10. Click: Go
  11. View results
  12. Expand your ub database
  13. Click the dishes table
  14. Click: Insert
  15. Enter a new record or two (2)
  16. Click: Go
  17. View results

MySQL Database Template (SQL)

PHPMyAdmin SQL Entry Prompt

CREATE TABLE dishes (
  dish_id int(11) AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, 
  dish_name varchar(50),
  price float DEFAULT NULL,
  is_spicy tinyint(1)DEFAULT NULL
);

INSERT INTO dishes (dish_id, dish_name, price, is_spicy) 
VALUES
(1, 'Fish Ball with Vegetables', 4.25, 0),
(2, 'Spicy Salt Baked Prawns', 5.5, 1),
(3, 'Steamed Rock Cod', 11.95, 0),
(4, 'Sauteed String Beans', 3.15, 1);

SELECT * FROM dishes;
 
SELECT OUTPUT