It's important to get comfortable with the MySQL Client quickly, so we can focus more on SQL and the database. Read the first section of the manual's tutorial (provided below) and type in the examples.
In your documentation, note the name of the database you choose to create in section 3.3.1 and record the output of both a 'DESCRIBE table' statement and a 'SHOW TABLES' statement.
PDF of Tutorial here -- a hard copy will be provided in class.
pets.txt -- the sample data file to load (section 3.3.3)