Translations:MySQL/Startup Guide/29/en

Indeed our database has been created. In order to work with creating tables for our new gentoo database, we need to select it as our current database. To do so, we use the  command. The  command takes the name of the database you wish to use as your current database. Another option is to set it on the command line after the  switch. Let's go ahead and switch to the gentoo database.