- Paperback: 864 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (12 April 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0764579509
- ISBN-13: 978-0764579509
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 4.6 x 23.6 cm
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- Provides programmers with a complete foundation in MySQL, the multi–user, multi–threaded SQL database server that easily stores, updates, and accesses information
- Offers detailed instructions for MySQL installation and configuration on either Windows or Linux
- Shows how to create a database, work with SQL, add and modify data, run queries, perform administrative tasks, and build database applications
- Demonstrates how to connect to a MySQL database from within PHP, Java, ASP, and ASP.NET applications
- Companion Web site includes SQL statements needed to create and populate a database plus three ready–to–use database applications (in PHP, Java, and ASP.NET)
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Beginning MySQL
As the most popular open source database system in the world, MySQL boasts ease of implementation, minimal overhead, consistent reliability, and low total cost of ownership. This hands–on resource offers you a complete look at MySQL and explains how to implement MySQL and access MySQL with various programming languages.
Using a task–oriented approach along with numerous helpful examples, this book takes you through the steps necessary to install MySQL 4.1 on Linux and Windows platforms, create and manage MySQL databases, query and manipulate data, and administer the MySQL database management system. By the end of the book you′ll have a solid foundation for understanding MySQL as a robust, flexible, and easy–to–implement application that has many diverse uses.
What you will learn from this book
- Where to find MySQL components on your system and what tools are available to access and manipulate data
- How to set up logging, manage security, optimize performance, and back up and restore your system
- Ways to insert, update, copy, import, export, and delete data
- How to access a MySQL database from within a specific programming language
- Effective methods for establishing a connection to a database and issuing SQL statements
Who this book is for
This book is for programmers who are new to MySQL but who have some experience in PHP, Java, or ASP/ASP.NET developing applications that access backend databases.
Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
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Great MYSQL book!, 29 Aug 2006
By Frank Stepanski - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beginning MySQL (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
MYSQL is an open-source standard DBMS now and is a great way (free) to get yourself started in learning about web design and how to create databases. This is a great book to use a starter guide to learning MYSQL or for people who have learned some MYSQL on their own and want a guide and/or resource for learning more intermediate topics.
The first thing the author goes into how to get/install/configure MYSQL whether it be on a Windows or UNIX environment. There are some differences between the two setups on the different OS so it's an important first chapter. The next chapter covers how to create a relational database while explaining good design with normalization, relationships (one to many, many to many, etc), understanding what a data model is, and showing some good database examples. Jumping into creating your tables before you understand design theory can be disastrous down the road when you realize you need to re-design your tables which can lead to hours of extra work.
Then of the meat of the book (Chapters 5 - 10) goes into explaining the SQL (Structured Query Language) in how to create a table, retrieve data, update, append and delete data. The author spends a good amount of time on the basics of SQL and shows some good examples. After the basics it shoes the MYSQL specific syntax more complex queries and uses working examples for each of them. The author does a great job of going through the syntax first then shows some examples and then goes through using the new syntax in a database project as well.
The rest of the book (Chapter 11 - 16) goes into administration tasks such as exporting and copying databases, managing transactions, setting up security and optimizing and performance issues. The final 3 chapters goes into using different web technologies (PHP, ASP.NET and Java) to interact with MYSQL databases and show data on a web page. A very nice change of pace that can prove helpful if you want to get into web development as well.
Overall this a great book on MYSQL that really explains the important topics with some great examples.
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SELECT attention FROM readers WHERE viewing = "reviews";, 18 Mar 2011
By Larry Battle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beginning MySQL (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
Overall, I love this book, because the authors build your knowledge of databases from the ground up.
Before I got my hands on this book, I knew only a limited amount about databases. Now, I understand advance concepts (like foreign keys, transactions and optimization) and can design, implement and maintain my own simple relational database management system.
This is a thick book that took me about 2 weeks to finish and it would have taken even longer if I decided to follow through with all the "Try it out" sections, exercises and useful examples.
"Beginning MySql" covers the majority of MySql 4.1 by using the definitions of syntax and options as their main teaching tool throughout most of the chapters. This makes MySql easy to learn since you can reference the definitions as a cheat sheet when you're implementing a database design.
One thing that I noticed is that they need more proofreading. Every now and then, you'll encounter a typo or wrong information but this is expected since the authors warned of this in the introduction.
Example, page 299: "However, bitwise operations support calculations up to 64 buts".
The best part of the book, is appendix C. It briefly covers MySql 5 but they introduce you to Triggers, Views and Procedures while updating you on MySql new standards. For exmaple, MySql 5 supports foreign keys for all the table engines, not just for INNODB.
If you're the type that has a hard time reading documentation online, then I would strongly recommend this book. Otherwise you might be able to learn MySql using Youtube and the MySql homepage.
Note: Since this book only covers MySql 4.1, then you'll need to checkout the on-line documentation for changes in the current MySQL.
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As you can see..., 16 Mar 2011
By bondibox - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Beginning MySQL (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
I found this book to be very informative, and the authors quite knowledgeable. Stylistically, however, they have a tendency to spoon feed the reader. I have crossed out more than ONE HUNDRED instances of the phrase "as you can see." The use of meaningless redundancies is a crutch that becomes a distraction to the reader. I also think the book could have been better proofread as I've found many slips, like saying parenthesis when they mean single quotes. The term "STRAIGHT JOIN" is written with an underscore in *every* instance - "STRAIGHT_JOIN" is not valid mysql syntax.
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