Summary  
This chapter covers how to use a command object to execute SQL statements on a server, focusing on nonquery operations via ExecuteNonQuery and printing the number of affected rows.

General domain of usage  
Relational database management

### Important Points:
- We use the `CREATE` command for creating a new database in a MySQL Server;
- A MySQL query or command can be executed using its `MySqlCommand` instance;
- Commands that do not retrieve data from the database are called Non-Queries and hence are executed using the `ExecuteNonQuery` method of the `MySqlCommand` objects.


Which method will we use for executing the following command?

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Executing Commands

Important Points: