Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table.

Jack Wallen explains how to add data into a MySQL table from the command line. So you’re new to MySQL database administration.

Also, I use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my examples, because that's what I have installed, and because I like the improvements MariaDB includes in both the command-line client and in the database ...