Re: seeking help

[John Russell]

In addition to the databases Philip mentioned with made-up data, I recommend doing 'use information_schema' and practicing queries on the tables you find there. Because these tables contain info about the structure of your own databases, you'll learn some things about how MySQL works at the same time. These tables are read-only, so you'll only be able to try out queries on them. (Although you can also do something like 'use test; create table t as select * from information_schema.tables;' to get a copy of the data where you can try insert, update, etc.)