Creating, Querying, and Managing Databases Using

MySQL
Objectives

In this session, you will learn to:

Export Data
Import Data
Manage user accounts

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Exporting Data

MySQL provides the facility to the user to export data into

files outside the database by using various MySQL utilities
and statements.
These SQL statements and utilities allow large amount of
data to be transferred into and outside the database.

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Exporting Data to an Out File

You may want to export the data into a format that can be
further imported to MS Excel or MS Access format.
The INTO OUTFILE variant of the SELECT statement
allows you to do the same.
It can be used to take backup of the complete database or
specific sections of the database into an out file.

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Exporting Data to an Out File (Contd.)

Syntax:
Creating Compound Statement
SELECT [select options go here] INTO OUTFILE
‘<filename>’ [<export option> [<export option>]]
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Exporting Data to an Out File (Contd.)

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Exporting Data to an Out File (Contd.)

For example:
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SELECT * FROM film
INTO OUTFILE 'd:film_details.txt';
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SELECT * FROM film
INTO OUTFILE 'd:film2_details.txt' LINES STARTING
BY '*' TERMINATED BY '$$';
Exports all the data from the film table to an out file named as
film_details.txt. using
film2_details.txt
film1_details.txt using linedelimiters.
field delimiters.

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Exporting Data to a Dump File

Sometimes, you need to export a single record or a column

containing binary data such as an MS Word file or an image
file.
MySQL allows you to achieve this by using the INTO
DUMPFILE option in the SELECT statement.
Syntax:
SELECT [select options go here] INTO DUMPFILE
‘<filename>’
ForIsexample:
the name of the dump file.
SELECT Picture FROM Sakila.Staff WHERE Staff_ID=1
INTO DUMPFILE 'd:pic.bin';
The value in the picture field of the Staff table having
Staff_ID as 1 is exported into the dump file named pic.bin.

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Demo: Exporting Data

Problem Statement:
You are a database administrator at Rox Luxurious Hotels Ltd. You
want to export all the details of the hotels to a text file. This will
enable you to share the hotel details with users who do not have
MySQL installed on their machines. The details of the hotels are
stored in the hotels table. For readability, you want that the records
of the hotels table, in the text file, should be separated by commas
and enclosed within double quotes. In addition, each row of the
record should begin with a dollar sign and end with double
asterisks.

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Demo: Exporting Data(Contd.)

Solution:
To solve the preceding problem, you need to perform the following
tasks:
Formulate the statement to export the table data.
Execute the statement to create the text file.

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Importing Data

MySQL provides the following utilities to import data from

various file formats such as text files:
Mysql Utility
Mysqlimport Utility

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Using MySQL Utility

MySQL utility provides the following commands to import

data into the MySQL database:
The LOAD DATA statement
The source command
The mysql command

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Using MySQL Utility (Contd.)

The LOAD DATA statement:

Allows you to directly import values from a delimited text file.
Syntax:
LOAD DATA [LOW_PRIORITY | CONCURRENT] [LOCAL] INFILE
‘<filename>’
[REPLACE | IGNORE]
INTO TABLE <table name>
[<import option> [<import option>]]
[IGNORE <number> LINES]
[(<column name> [{, <column name>}...])]

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Using MySQL Utility (Contd.)

<import option>::=
{FIELDS | COLUMNS}
[TERMINATED BY ‘<value>’]
[[OPTIONALLY] ENCLOSED BY ‘<value>’]
[ESCAPED BY ‘<value>’]}
| {LINES
[STARTING BY ‘<value>’]
[TERMINATED BY ‘<value>’]}

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Using MySQL Utility (Contd.)

For example:
LOAD DATA INFILE "d:/Austria_cities.txt" INTO TABLE
Austria_Cities;

Import the data from the Austria_cities.txt text file to the

Austria_Cities table.

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Using MySQL Utility (Contd.)

The source command:

The source command can be used to import data into
MySQL tables by executing SQL statements stored in a sql file
from the mysql command prompt.
To use a source command, you need to determine the path
and the filename of the file that contains the MySQL
statements and commands.
Syntax:
mysql>source <file_name>
Specifies the path and filename of the sql file that needs to be
executed.

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Using MySQL Utility (Contd.)

The mysql command:

Can be executed from the operating system command prompt
to execute SQL statements and mysql commands from within
a text file without invoking the command line client.
The mysql command is the same command that is used to
invoke the mysql client utility.

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Using MySQL Utility (Contd.)

For example:
insert into country values (110,'New Aqua','2007-03-10
05:34:00');
insert into country values (111, 'New Carib','2007-04-
11 06:44:00');
insert into country values (112, 'New Zeal', '2007-03-
07 03:54:00');
insert into country values (113, 'New Dreams', '2007-
05-08 04:33:00');
insert into country values (114, 'New Aliver', '2007-
07-09 02:22:00');

The following commands are typed in a text file and saved using
the name emdata.sql.

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Using MySQL Utility (Contd.)

Now issue the following statement to import the given data into
the country table:
mysql –h localhost –u root –p sakila <
“<path>:emdata.sql”

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table.

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Using mysqlimport Utility

MySQL provides a utility called mysqlimport that allows the

user to import the delimited data present in a text file into
the MySQL database.
The mysqlimport utility uses the same import options as the
LOAD DATA statement.
Syntax:
Shell>mysqlimport [options] <database_name> file1
[file 2…]

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Using mysqlimport Utility (Contd.)

The following table displays the options that can be used

with the mysqlimport command.

Command Description Example

--columns=column_list Specifies the columns into --columns=film_id,title

which the data needs to be
imported.

--compress Compresses the --compress

information that is
exchanged between the
client and the server.

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Using mysqlimport Utility (Contd.)

For example:
mysqlimport production_management_system
d:order_status.txt;

The data in the order_status.txt file is imported to the

table order_status in the database
production_management_system.

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Demo: Importing Data

Problem Statement:
You are a Database Administrator at Rox Luxurious Hotels Ltd.
The management has recently acquired a small chain of hotels in
the country suburbs. However, the acquired company was
maintaining the information regarding its hotels and other details in
delimited text files. The management wants to import this
information into its centralized database. How will you achieve
this?
Prerequisite: To perform this activity, you need the hotel.txt text
file. Ask your faculty to provide the same and save it in the D: drive
of the system where the MySQL server is installed.

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Demo: Importing Data (Contd.)

Solution:
To solve the preceding problem, you need to perform the following
tasks:
Create a table.
Create a statement to import data into the created table.
Execute the statement and verify the output.

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Managing User Accounts

MySQL allows the authorized users to connect to the

MySQL server to allow them access or manipulate the
secured data.
For accessing and manipulating e secured data, a user
needs to have a valid user account.
The Database Administrator is responsible for creating such
user accounts.
MySQL provides various SQL statements that can be used
for creating and managing the user accounts.

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Creating a User Account

A user account:
Is defined in terms of a user name and a host.
May also be associated with a password.
A user name can be used to uniquely identify a user account.
MySQL provides its users the flexibility to create user accounts
with or without a password.

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Creating a User Account (Contd.)

When MySQL is installed on a system, some of the user

accounts are automatically created.
The user table contains records only for these accounts until
any other user account is created by the Database
Administrator, explicitly.
These user accounts are known as the initial set of accounts.
The initial set of accounts can be categorized as:
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anonymous account are known as
anonymous users.

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Creating a User Account (Contd.)

The CREATE USER statement:

Is used for creating user accounts.
Syntax:
CREATE USER <account_name> IDENTIFIED BY [PASSWORD]
‘password’ [,<account_name> IDENTIFIED BY [PASSWORD]
’password’,[…]]

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account.

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Creating a User Account (Contd.)

For example:
CREATE USER 'john'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'password_john';
Creates a new user account for John.

For example:
CREATE USER 'joe'
IDENTIFIED BY 'password_joe';
Creates a new user account for Joe with joe as the user name
and password_joe as the password. Allows the users to
connect to the MySQL server through any host.

For example:
CREATE USER 'almin'@'localhost';
Creates a user account for Almin with almin as the user name
and localhost as the host value.

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Creating a User Account (Contd.)

MySQL also allows the creation of user accounts by

modifying the grant tables directly.
To accomplish this, you can issue the INSERT statement on
the user table of the mysql database.
The FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement:
Should be executed to inform the MySQL server to reload all
the grant tables in memory.
Is not executed immediately after executing the INSERT
statement, the changes will not be reflected to the grant tables
until the MySQL server is restarted.
While creating user account using the INSERT statement,
you need to use either the PASSWORD() function or the
OLD_PASSWORD()function.

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Creating a User Account (Contd.)

For example:
INSERT INTO mysql.user
VALUES('%','harry',PASSWORD('password@123'),'Y','Y'
,'Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y
','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','
Y','Y','','','','',0,0,0,0,'','');

Creates a new user account for Harry with harry as the user
name and % as the host value. In addition, all the columns of the
user table are assigned some values.
Also uses the PASSWORD function to specify password@123 as
password.

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Modifying a User Account

The Database Administrator is responsible not only for

creating the user accounts but also for modifying the same.
As a Database Administrator, you may need to perform the
following operations on a user account:
Rename a user account
Change the password

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Modifying a User Account (Contd.)

The RENAME USER statement:

Is used to rename a user account.
Syntax:
RENAME USER old_account_name TO new_account_name,
[ old_account_name TO new_account_name,..]
Is the place holder for the new account
current name
account to be
name given to the
associated with
user account
the user to be
account torenamed.
be renamed.

For example:
RENAME USER 'joe' TO 'joe_louise'@'localhost';

It changes the user name for Joe’s user account from joe to
joe_louise and the host value to localhost.

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Modifying a User Account (Contd.)

Changing the password:

MySQL allows you to modify the password associated with an
user account or assign a new password to an account that is
not assigned any password.
MySQL provides the following ways:
Using the SET PASSWORD statement
Using the UPDATE statement

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Modifying a User Account (Contd.)

The SET PASSWORD statement:

Allows you to set a new password for an existing user account or
change the current password associated with a user account.
Syntax:
SET PASSWORD [FOR account_name]=
{
PASSWORD('PASSWORD')| OLD_PASSWORD('PASSWORD')
|'encrypted_password'
}

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in the SET PASSWORD statement, the MySQL server sets or
changes the password for the current user.

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Modifying a User Account (Contd.)

For example:
SET PASSWORD FOR 'almin'@'localhost' =
PASSWORD('password_almin');

It assigns password_almin as password to Alimn’s user

account.

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Modifying a User Account (Contd.)

The UPDATE statement:

Is used only to change the password associated with a user
account.
Is issued on the user table of the mysql database and cannot be
used to assign a password to the user account that is not
associated with any password.

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Modifying a User Account (Contd.)

For example:
UPDATE mysql.user
SET Password=PASSWORD('newpass@123')
Where User='John' and Host='localhost';
The SET clause is used to modify the value in the Password
column of the user table for the record that corresponds to
John’s user account.

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Deleting a User Account

To delete a user account, MySQL provides the following

ways:
Using the DROP USER statement
Using the DELETE statement

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Deleting a User Account (Contd.)

The DROP USER statement:

Can be used for deleting user accounts.
Syntax:
DROP USER account_name [, account_name,…]
For example:
Is the placeholder for the account name associated with the user
account to be removed.
DROP USER 'john'@'localhost';
Deletes the account for John.

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Deleting a User Account (Contd.)

The DELETE statement:

Can be issued on the user table of the mysql database to delete
a user account.
Its execution should be followed by the execution of the FLUSH
PRIVILIGES statement.
For example:
DELETE FROM user
WHERE user='harry';

Deletes the user account for harry.

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Demo: Creating User Accounts

Problem Statement:
Consider the scenario of Rox Luxurious Hotels Ltd. The hotel
reservation system is centralized and provides hotel-booking facilities to
the customers, irrespective of the geographical diversities. The entire
data at the hotel reservation system is managed by the Database
Administrator. In addition, he/she is responsible for securing the
databases to allow only authorized users to access or manipulate them.
Therefore, once the hotel reservation system is developed, it becomes
the responsibility of the Database Administrator to create user accounts
for the employees who can access and manipulate the hotel reservation
system. In addition, the Database Administrator needs to create user
accounts for the agents who can access the hotel reservation system.
The following table lists the user names and their user types for which
the user accounts need to be created by the Database Administrator.

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Demo: Creating User Accounts (Contd.)

Once all the user accounts are created, the Database

Administrator wants to ensure that the information regarding
these user accounts are entered into the system. Help the
Database Administrator in accomplishing this task.

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Demo: Creating User Accounts (Contd.)

Solution:
To solve the preceding problem, you need to perform the following
tasks:
Create the user accounts.
Verify the creation of the user accounts.

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Demo: Modifying User Accounts

Problem Statement:
The Database Administrator at Rox Luxurious Ltd. suspects that
the passwords of some user accounts have been leaked out.
These passwords might be misused by any unauthorized user.
This may result in illegal access and manipulation of the secured
data at the hotel reservation system. Therefore, the Database
Administrator decided to change the user names and reset the
passwords associated with these user accounts. The following
table lists the user names, new user names, and new passwords to
be assigned to the user accounts.

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Demo: Modifying User Accounts (Contd.)

In addition to this, the Database Administrator needs to delete the

user account for Kimberly Clark who earlier used to provide agent
services to Rox Luxurious Hotels Ltd. but has now ceased to provide
the services. Help the Database Administrator in accomplishing these
tasks.

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Demo: Modifying User Accounts (Contd.)

Solution:
To solve the preceding problem, you need to perform the following
tasks:
Change the user names and reset the passwords associated with
the user accounts.
Verify the changes made to the user accounts.
Delete the user account.
Verify the deletion of the user account.

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Creating, Querying, and Managing Databases Using
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Summary

In this session, you learned that:

MySQL provides the facility to the user to export data into files
outside the database by using various MySQL utilities and
statements.
The INTO OUTFILE variant of the SELECT statement allows
you to do the same. In addition, it can be used to take backup
of the complete database or specific sections of the database
into an out file.
MySQL provides the mysql and mysqlimport utility to import
data from various file formats, such as text files, into the
database tables.
The LOAD DATA statement allows you to directly import values
from a delimited text file.
The source command can be used to import data into MySQL
tables by executing SQL statements stored in a sql file from
the mysql command prompt.

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Summary (Contd.)

The mysql command can be executed from the operating

system command prompt to execute SQL statements and
mysql commands from within a text file without invoking the
command line client.
MySQL provides a utility called mysqlimport that is actually
a command line version of the LOAD DATA statement.
A user account is defined in terms of a user name and a host.
The information about each user account, such as the host,
user name, password, and global privileges assigned to it, is
stored in the user table of the mysql system database as a
separate record.
When MySQL is installed on a system, some of the user
accounts are automatically created in it. These user accounts
are known as the initial set of accounts.

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Summary (Contd.)

The initial set of accounts can be categorized as:

Superuser accounts
Anonymous accounts
A Database Administrator can create user accounts in any of
the following ways:
Using the CREATE USER statement
Using the INSERT statement
The FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement should be executed to
inform the MySQL server to reload all the grant tables in
memory.
The user accounts can be renamed by using the RENAME
USER statement. Renaming the user accounts includes
changing the user names and/or the host values associated
with them.

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Summary (Contd.)

MySQL allows you to modify the password associated with a

user account or assign a new password to an account that is
not assigned any password. For this, MySQL provides the
following ways:
Using the SET PASSWORD statement
Using the UPDATE statement
The SET PASSWORD statement allows you to set a new
password for an existing user account or change the current
password associated with a user account.
The UPDATE statement, issued on the user table of the mysql
database, is used to change the password associated with an
existing user account.

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Summary (Contd.)

To delete a user account, MySQL provides the following ways:

Using the DROP USER statement
Using the DELETE statement
The GRANT statement can be used to create a user account as
well as to assign privileges to it.

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