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Installing the lab database

Throughout this book we’ll be relying on a singular set of data for our queries. The data is based on a set
of orders from a hypothetical book publisher of SQL-based novels, using a database named “sqlnovel”
for all our queries. We’ll discuss this data more throughout the book, but for now let’s just create the
database and populate the sample data by loading and executing a prepared SQL script.

First, download the “Create_SQLNovel_database.sql” script from the site at…?

Next, open the MySQL Workbench, and click on the Month of Lunches connection.

Once the connection is open, select File > Open SQL Script from the top menu to open a separate
window to find the file you just downloaded. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl-Shift-O (that’s “O” as in
Open, not a zero) to open the window.
Browse to the file and then select it and click Open to open it in the Workbench. You should now see a
script with a header tab that says the name of the file.
All we need to do from here is execute this script to create the database and populate it with data. To
do this, select Query from the top menu, and then Execute (All or Selection).

After executing, you should see lots of green checkmarks in the Output panel below the script, to
confirm the script ran.
On the left, in the Navigator panel, switch from Administration to Schemas. This can be done by clicking
on the word Schemas at the bottom of the pane. Then right-click in the white space of that window and
select Refresh All.

After refreshing, you should see the “sqlnovel” database appear under SCHEMAS, with other items such
as Tables and Views beneath it. This confirms we’ve created the sample database.
Finally, let’s do a few things to clean up the Workbench before we use it again. First, if you see a panel
on the on the right side that says SQLAdditions, let’s close that since we won’t be using it.
To close it, from the top menu select View > Panels > Hide Secondary Sidebar.

Before we exit the application, we’re also going to want to close the tab with the database installation
script we just executed. If we don’t close it, the Workbench will open it automatically the next time we
start the application. Since we aren’t planning on using this script again anytime soon, let’s close it either
by clicking on the X to the right of the script name in the tab, or by selecting File > Close Tab from the
top menu.

Alright, we’re good to exit the Workbench application for now, and we’re ready to start querying data in
Chapter 2!

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