MySQL 101: Installation, care, and feeding on Ubuntu If you've got 15 minutes, we can show you the ropes of basic MySQL management.

The mysql command-line interactive program is a very powerful way to access, display and even manipulate data without the need for any GUI at all. The basic commands are well worth learning, so if you ...

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

Since MariaDB is a fork from MySQL, the syntax is similar, but MariaDB has several additional features. Basic SQL syntax remains the same, but MariaDB handles data storage and functions differently.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if mySQL has an equivalent function, so this may be useless to you. That may make for nice syntax but the query plan is probably horrendous.