A point of sale database contains the customers, products and sales established on your website. Users are able to click products, review the product information and purchase the product from your site. All the user’s information is stored in the database tables using Structured Query Language (SQL). You use this language to create your point of sale database. It’s also used to insert records and retrieve them for your web content. create database point_of_sale CREATE TABLE customer ( customer_id int, LastName varchar(30), FirstName varchar(30), ) Each row in the parenthesis is a column for your table. Repeat this SQL command for each of your sales tables. insert into customer (customer_id, FirstName, LastName) values (1, ‘James’, ‘Doe’) select * from customer This statement retrieves data from the customer table. You can also replace “customer” with the names of your other tables to test data. Writer Bio
