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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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(29)
Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 05, 2025
Duration
1h 0m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    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!

  2. Challenge

    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.

  3. Challenge

    Importing E-Commerce Data

    Use a standard dump file to import data into MySQL server.

  4. Challenge

    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.

  5. Challenge

    Exporting E-Commerce Data

    In this challenge, you will export e-commerce data stored in the database to a standard SQL dump file.

  6. Challenge

    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.

  7. Challenge

    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.

  8. Challenge

    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.

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