WEEK 17 CST 363 Intro to Database Systems

This week, we had an introduction to SQL which included client/server systems, the relational database model, SQL and SQL based systems, and SQL statements. In Chapter 2, we learned about using the MySQL workbench, running SQL statements, and how to use the command line client. In Chapter 3, we learned about the select, where, order by, and limit clauses to process data. We used inner and outer joins to get data from two or more tables and practiced using unions. In Chapter 5, we made new rows, updated existing rows and deleted existing rows.

Initially, I had some trouble connecting to the server in chapter 2. I later found out that I needed MySQL server to do that. After reading more online and at the end of chapter 2, I downloaded the necessary programs and was able to continue with the homework.