General commands

Logging into remote db

mysql -h HOST -P PORT -u USERNAME -p

Creating a table

Syntax 

CREATE TABLE table_name (
    column1 datatype contraint,
    column2 datatype,
    column3 datatype,
);

Example

CREATE TABLE products (
    id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    product_name VARCHAR(32),
    company_id INT,
    FOREIGN KEY (company_id) REFERENCES companies(id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

View table creation code

SHOW CREATE TABLE `table_name`;

Adding a new foreign key

ALTER TABLE table_name ADD CONSTRAINT fk_foreign_key_name FOREIGN KEY (column_name) REFERENCES table_name(table_column);