Installing Your Database Tools

There are many different databases (DBs) in the world which fall into many different categories. We will be focusing on a family of DBs called Relational Databases (RDB) which work with a language called SQL. Specifically we will be working with MySQL which is a popular open source database. The tool we're going to use to create and manage our databases is MySQL Workbench. An alternative is DataGrip by JetBrains but all the examples will be with MySQL Workbench. You can actually use any tool you wish to manage your MySQL database but I can't guarantee that we will be able to do examples in your software of choice outside of those listed above.