This document provides instructions for creating and manipulating tables in a database. It includes commands to:
1) Create an Employees table with columns for employee details like ID, name, email, hire date etc and insert sample data.
2) Create other tables like Departments, Salary Grades and insert sample data.
3) Write SQL queries to update, select, filter and format data from the tables including changing data types, adding/removing columns, updating salaries etc.