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Database Administration: Importing and Exporting Data
In this lab, you'll practice importing and exporting data from a relational database. When you're finished, you'll have the skills to confidently meet business and technical requirement related to providing data from a database to various stakeholders.
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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Setting up MySQL Workbench Connection
To start the lab, you will set up a connection to your MySQL server instance in MySQL Workbench, one of the most popular MySQL clients.
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Importing E-Commerce Data
Use a standard dump file to import data into MySQL server.
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Importing from a CSV
In this challenge, you will import the same e-commerce data, but instead of a self-contained SQL dump file, you will be using CSV files.
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Exporting E-Commerce Data
In this challenge, you will export e-commerce data stored in the database to a standard SQL dump file.
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Automating Imports with Mysql Client
You will learn how to perform imports without MySQL Workbench or other GUI tools, in order to automate imports as new data continually flows in.
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Automating Exports with mysqldump
You will learn how to perform exports without MySQL Workbench or other GUI tools, in order to automate exports as new data is continually generated by your systems.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
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Provided environment for hands-on practice
We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.
Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
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