Recorded during a live class session on 9-16-24 for GTC. This demonstrates how to connect to your local instance of MySQL server v.8.x using MySQL Workbench, and then loading a sample database to explore the interface. The sample database (My Guitar Shop) can be downloaded from here - https://prometheus.gtc.edu/~ccccc/web... - this comes the sample files included in Murach's MySQL 2nd edition, shared for the benefit of my students.