1. How would you check if MySql service is running or not?
Answer : Issue the command “service mysql status” in ‘Debian’ and “service mysqld status” in RedHat. Check the output, and all done.
root@localhost:/home/avi# service mysql status
/usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.42 Distrib 5.1.72, for debian-linux-gnu on i486
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Server version 5.1.72-2
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime: 1 hour 22 min 49 sec
Threads: 1 Questions: 112138 Slow queries: 1 Opens: 1485 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 64 Queries per second avg: 22.567.
2. If the service is running/stop how would you stop/start the service?
Answer : To start MySql service use command as service mysqld start and to stop use service mysqld stop.
root@localhost:/home/avi# service mysql stop
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
root@localhost:/home/avi# service mysql start
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld.
Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables..
3. How will you login to MySQL from Linux Shell?
Answer : To connect or login to MySQL service, use command: mysql -u root -p.
root@localhost:/home/avi# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 207
Server version: 5.1.72-2 (Debian)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
mysql>
4. How will you obtain list of all the databases?
Answer : To list all currently running databases run the command on mysql shell as: show databases;
mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| a1 |
| cloud |
| mysql |
| phpmyadmin |
| playsms |
| sisso |
| test |
| ukolovnik |
| wordpress |
+--------------------+
10 rows in set (0.14 sec)
5. How will you switch to a database, and start working on that?
Answer : To use or switch to a specific database run the command on mysql shell as: use database_name;
mysql> use cloud;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed
mysql>
6. How will you get the list of all the tables, in a database?
Answer : To list all the tables of a database use the command on mysql shell as: show tables;
mysql> show tables;
+----------------------------+
| Tables_in_cloud |
+----------------------------+
| oc_appconfig |
| oc_calendar_calendars |
| oc_calendar_objects |
| oc_calendar_repeat |
| oc_calendar_share_calendar |
| oc_calendar_share_event |
| oc_contacts_addressbooks |
| oc_contacts_cards |
| oc_fscache |
| oc_gallery_sharing |
+----------------------------+
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)
7. How will you get the Field Name and Type of a MySql table?
Answer : To get the Field Name and Type of a table use the command on mysql shell as: describe table_name;
mysql> describe oc_users;
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| uid | varchar(64) | NO | PRI | | |
| password | varchar(255) | NO | | | |
+----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
8. How will you delete a table?
Answer : To delte a specific table use the command on mysql shell as: drop table table_name;
mysql> drop table lookup;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
9. What about database? How will you delete a database?
Answer : To delte a specific database use the command on mysql shell as: drop database database-name;
mysql> drop database a1;
Query OK, 11 rows affected (0.07 sec)
10. How will you see all the contents of a table?
Answer : To view all the contents of a particular table use the command on mysql shell as: select * from table_name;
mysql> select * from engines;
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| ENGINE | SUPPORT | COMMENT | TRANSACTIONS | XA | SAVEPOINTS |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| InnoDB | YES | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES | YES | YES |
| MRG_MYISAM | YES | Collection of identical MyISAM tables | NO | NO | NO |
| BLACKHOLE | YES | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears) | NO | NO | NO |
| CSV | YES | CSV storage engine | NO | NO | NO |
| MEMORY | YES | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables | NO | NO | NO |
| FEDERATED | NO | Federated MySQL storage engine | NULL | NULL | NULL |
| ARCHIVE | YES | Archive storage engine | NO | NO | NO |
| MyISAM | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance | NO | NO | NO |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)
11. How will you see all the data in a field (say, uid), from table (say, oc_users)?
Answer : To view all the data in a field use the command on mysql shell as: select uid from oc_users;
mysql> select uid from oc_users;
+-----+
| uid |
+-----+
| avi |
+-----+
1 row in set (0.03 sec)
12. Say you have a table ‘xyz’, which contains several fields including ‘create_time’ and ‘engine’. The field ‘engine’ is populated with two types of data ‘Memory’ and ‘MyIsam’. How will you get only ‘create_time’ and ‘engine’ from the table where engine is ‘MyIsam’?
Answer : Use the command on mysql shell as: select create_time, engine from xyz where engine=”MyIsam”;
12. mysql> select create_time, engine from xyz where engine="MyIsam";
+---------------------+--------+
| create_time | engine |
+---------------------+--------+
| 2013-12-15 13:43:27 | MyISAM |
| 2013-12-15 13:43:27 | MyISAM |
| 2013-12-15 13:43:27 | MyISAM |
| 2013-12-15 13:43:27 | MyISAM |
| 2013-12-15 13:43:27 | MyISAM |
| 2013-12-15 13:43:27 | MyISAM |
| 2013-12-15 13:43:27 | MyISAM |
| 2013-12-15 13:43:27 | MyISAM |
| 2013-10-23 14:56:38 | MyISAM |
| 2013-10-23 14:56:38 | MyISAM |
| 2013-10-23 14:56:38 | MyISAM |
| 2013-10-23 14:56:38 | MyISAM |
| 2013-10-23 14:56:38 | MyISAM |
| 2013-10-23 14:56:38 | MyISAM |
| 2013-10-23 14:56:38 | MyISAM |
+---------------------+--------+
132 rows in set (0.29 sec)
13. How will you show all the records from table ‘xrt’ where name is ‘tecmint’ and web_address is ‘tecmint.com’?
Answer : Use the command on mysql shell as: select * from xrt where name = “tecmint” and web_address = “tecmint.com”;
mysql> select * from xrt where name = "tecmint" and web_address = “tecmint.com”;
+---------------+---------------------+---------------+
| Id | name | web_address |
+---------------+---------------------+----------------+
| 13 | tecmint | tecmint.com |
+---------------+---------------------+----------------+
| 41 | tecmint | tecmint.com |
+---------------+---------------------+----------------+
14. How will you show all the records from table ‘xrt’ where name is not ‘tecmint’ and web_address is ‘tecmint.com’?
Answer : Use the command on mysql shell as: select * from xrt where name != “tecmint” and web_address = “tecmint.com”;
mysql> select * from xrt where name != ”tecmint” and web_address = ”tecmint.com”;
+---------------+---------------------+---------------+
| Id | name | web_address |
+---------------+---------------------+----------------+
| 1173 | tecmint | tecmint.com |
+---------------+---------------------+----------------+
15. You need to know total number of row entry in a table. How will you achieve it?
Answer : Use the command on mysql shell as: select count(*) from table_name;
mysql> select count(*) from Tables;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 282 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
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