SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It’s a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, like SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres ...

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 ...

jim@locutus:~$ mysqldump -u debian-sys-maint -p password -h localhost --all-databases > /home/jim/mysqlbackup.mysql The mysqldump command just barfs out all of the SQL queries necessary to ...