Jack Wallen explains how to add data into a MySQL table from the command line.

This is likely because when I first learned it was with command-line tools, but even so, I think command-line database tools often are the best way to interact with a database manually. Two of the ...

Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure. It's that simple—you've now restored your database dbname in the condition it was when you dumped it.