Beginning SQL

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At the very top of the program screen is a large textbox, which is where you enter your SQL. Once it’s
entered and you’re happy with it, you need to click the Execute button (the button with a flash through
it directly to the right of the textbox). This then runs or executes the SQL. The first task is to create the
Film Club database. Enter the following SQL into the SQL box:
CREATE DATABASE FILMCLUB;
Figure B-24 shows the SQL in the SQL box:
Figure B-24
This is not a query returning information; rather, it is SQL that changes the database system, in this case,
adding a new database. Therefore, you don’t see any results as such, but if you right-click in the
Schemata box (on the right-hand side of the window) and select Refresh Schemata List, you see that the
database, or what MySQL calls a schema, called filmclub now appears (see Figure B-25):
Figure B-25
Now close down Query Browser and reopen it. The same login-type screen appears, but this time you
need to create a connection to the Film Club database. Click the button with three dots inside it next to
the Connection drop-down box. The screen shown in Figure B-26 should appear: