How To Create a Testing Table

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How To Create a Testing Table? - MySQL FAQs - Understanding SQL INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE Statements

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If you want to practice DML statements, like INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE, you should create a testing table. The tutorial exercise shows you a good example:

mysql> CREATE TABLE fyi_links (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
  url VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL,
  notes VARCHAR(1024),
  counts INTEGER,
  created TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP());
  
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.08 sec)

You should keep this table to practice other tutorial exercises presented in this collection.

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