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# Using DreamFactory's MySQL REST API

Tutorial·6 January 2016·6 min 49 sec

Working with DreamFactory's built-in MySQL database: creating tables and making API calls against them. A good way to see the request and response shapes before pointing the platform at your own database.

**Recorded in 2016.** The concepts still apply, but the interface shown predates the current DreamFactory release. Some steps may differ in the current release.

## What you’ll learn

* Creating tables in the built-in MySQL database
* Making API calls against those tables
* Seeing request and response shapes before using your own data

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