Problem w/ MySQL Installation

I’m sort of a MySQL newbie here and am trying to use it again for the first time in about four years. And four years ago was the only other time I had used it before this.

Trying to create a database from the mysql command line window so I enter:


CREATE DATABASE pup

and it doesn’t return an error message but when I then do

USE pup

it says “Unknown database.” Is there something I’m doing wrong here?

when you create the database you should see:

query okay, 1 row affected

if you don’t see that then the database was not created.