! colspan="3" align = "center" | Common Commands in SQL

| style="padding: 10px" colspan="3" align = "center" | AND

| style="padding: 10px" colspan="3" align = "center" | OR

| style="padding: 10px" colspan="3" align = "center" | NOT

| style="padding: 10px" | mysql| style="padding: 10px" | mysql -u ''username'' -p| style="padding: 10px" | Command line command where ''username'' should be replaced by the user's account name

| style="padding: 10px" | `''table''`| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Syntax for indicating a table

| style="padding: 10px" | AS ''var''| style="padding: 10px" || style="padding: 10px" | Sets an output to a variable

| style="padding: 10px" | AUTO_INCREMENT | style="padding: 10px" || style="padding: 10px" | Automatically adds +1 to an entry for a column for each successive entry

| style="padding: 10px" | AVG()| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Gives an average of the values in the indicated column

| style="padding: 10px" | BIGINT| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | 64-bit integer

| style="padding: 10px" | CHAR| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Assigns a character variable (allows ONLY 1 character)

| style="padding: 10px" | CREATE TABLE `''table''`| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Creates a table of the given name with the properly input variable (see below)

| style="padding: 10px" | CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE `[table]`| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Creates a temporary table of the given name

| style="padding: 10px" | DATE| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Assigns a date variable of the form 00-00-0000

| style="padding: 10px" | FROM| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Denotes which table SELECT pulls the columns from (e.g. SELECT [col1],[col2] FROM `''table''`

| style="padding: 10px" | INSERT| style="padding: 10px" | INSERT INTO ''table_name''<br /><br />VALUES (''value1,value2,value3,...'');<br /><br />INSERT INTO ''table_name'' (''column1,column2,column3,...'')<br /><br />VALUES (''value1,value2,value3,...''); -- specifies the columns the values go into | style="padding: 10px" | Used with INTO to insert new data entries into the specified columns

| style="padding: 10px" | INT | style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | 32-bit integer

| style="padding: 10px" | INTO | style="padding: 10px" | SELECT * or ''column_name(s)''<br />INTO ''newtable'' [IN ''externaldb'']<br />FROM ''table1'';| style="padding: 10px" | Used with SELECT command to copy ''column_names'' from ''table1'' into ''newtable''

| style="padding: 10px" | LIMIT # | style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Limits to the top # number of entries (not necessarily by rank)

| style="padding: 10px" | MAX() | style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Gives the maximum of the values in the indicated column

| style="padding: 10px" | MIN()| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Gives the minimum of the values in the indicated column

| style="padding: 10px" | PRIMARY KEY| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Indicates which variable will differentiate each data entry

| style="padding: 10px" | SELECT| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Selects columns from a database for analysis

| style="padding: 10px" | UNSIGNED| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | only allows positive integers or float values, always assigned after BIGINT or INT value

| style="padding: 10px" | UPDATE | style="padding: 10px" | UPDATE ''table_name''<br />SET ''column1=value1,column2=value2,...''<br />WHERE ''some_column''=''some_value;''| style="padding: 10px" | Changes ''column1'' to ''value1'' based on the WHERE statement (use something unique to update only one row)

| style="padding: 10px" | USE ''database''| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Selects database for manipulation and analysis

| style="padding: 10px" | VARCHAR(#)| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Assigns a character array variable of length #

| style="padding: 10px" | WHERE| style="padding: 10px" | | style="padding: 10px" | Limits the available values SELECT can pull from each column based on a logical statement (e.g. WHERE ''col1'' < 10)