Before moving on to the next lesson, you need to create the sample database tables that are used in this book. Installing the Sample TablesYou can download a SQL file that contains all the instructions needed to create the sample tables from www.samspublishing.com. Save this file to your hard disk as sampdb.sql and issue the following command: $ mysql - -user=yourname - -password dbname < sampdb.sql The < symbol causes the contents of sampdb.sql to be passed to the mysql program all at once. The result is that the sample tables are created within the database you specified. |