Jack Wallen explains how to add data into a MySQL table from the command line.

Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

This is likely because when I first learned it was with command-line tools, but even so, I think command-line database tools often are the best way to interact with a database manually. Two of the ...

I tried using the following commands to shutdown and startup MySQL and although it did, it also changed the permissions on the databases and I could no longer work with them in phpmyadmin until i ...

Open a command line by opening the Start menu, typing "cmd" into the search bar, then clicking "Command Prompt" from the results. Log in to the MySQL server by typing "mysql -u MySQLuser -p ...

mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure. It's that simple—you've now restored your database dbname in the condition it was when you dumped it.

The mysql command-line interactive program is a very powerful way to access, display and even manipulate data without the need for any GUI at all. The basic commands are well worth learning, so if you ...

MySQL Command Line Log in to MySQL as the root user or a user with privileges to the database containing the data you want to export.