In this course you'll get hands-on experience with the MySQL open-source relational database system. The course provides exercises that will help you gain familiarity with the MySQL command-line tools, querying using SQL, and data-manipulation actions (inserts, updates, and deletes). The course also provides an introduction to relational data design in MySQL and concludes with coverage of a few intermediate MySQL features, including full-text search, transactions, access control and subqueries.