Re: Where data are stored

[Peter Brawley]

Database files (not data files) are in the folder described by the result of ...

select @@datadir;

each database is stored in a set of files in a subfolder there, the subfolder name corresponding to the database name.

Note that unlike "data files" you may have become accustomed to manipulating in other software contexts, relational database files ought not to be messed with. Your interface to them is SQL, in this case the MySQL version of that language.