Originally Posted by calmlikeabomb

Login to your server via ssh. Change directories to where mysql is installed and login to the mysql server.

Will be something like this:

[calmlikeabomb@reviews]# cd /usr/bin/
[calmlikeabomb@reviews]# mysql -u root -p -h your.server

Where -u is the user logging in (root in this example), -p just specifys we will be using a password, -h is the server were logging in to. Then you will be promted for the mysql password that is associated with the user.

After logging in Select a database to work with:

mysql> use databasename;

If you don't know what databases are in the system:

mysql> show databases;

Show the tables in a database once you've selected one:

mysql> show tables;

Learn more about the fields/columns that the table consists of:

mysql> describe sometable;

Hope this gets you headed in the right direction ; )