Translations:MySQL/Startup Guide/34/en

In the structure of MySQL, there are databases, tables, records, and fields. Databases hold together tables, tables hold together records, records hold together fields, which contain the actual information. This structure lets users select how they want to access their information. So far we've dealt with databases, now let's work with tables. First off, tables can be listed similiarly to databases using the  command. Right now there are no tables in our gentoo database, as running the command will show us: