MySQL 101: Installation, care, and feeding on Ubuntu If you've got 15 minutes, we can show you the ropes of basic MySQL management.

Exiting MySQL You’ve created a database, added a table, and injected data into the table. All that’s left is to exit MySQL with the command exit. Your database is ready to use.

You can copy a MySQL database to a website using a tool such as phpMyAdmin or by using the MySQL command line. Create a new target database, export the data from the source database and import it ...

Figure C Adminer is now ready to serve your database administration needs. And that’s how easy it is to get Adminer up and running on top of a MySQL database.

Other Linux distributions are moving to MariaDB for their default database management system, but Ubuntu is standing by Oracle's MySQL. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth explains why.