SQL for MySQL Developers: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference - Softcover

Van Der Lans, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131497359 ISBN 13: 9780131497351

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2007

Synopsis

This book describes MYSQL's SQL dialect. It teaches how and why to use certain features of the language. Not only the classic features of SQL are described, but also the more advanced features. Every aspect of the language is discussed thoroughly and critically. The following aspects of SQL, among other things, are covered: Querying and updating data (joins, functions, and subqueries), creating tables, specifying primary and foreign keys and other constraints, using indexes, data security, developing stored procedures and triggers. Application development with PHP and Python, transactions, optimization of statements, is also discussed. Many users of MySQL have only very limited knowledge of SQL and would be significantly more productive if they had a better understanding of SQL. Others know SQL, but are unfamiliar with the idiosyncracies of MySQL's SQL implementation. In either case, this is the book for them. The exercises are a key benefit for readers familiar with other SQL variants. The structure, style and approach of this book is based on van der Lans best-selling Introduction to SQL (published by Addison-Wesley since 1987). This book is still being used at many universities, and is now in a fourth edition. And that structure and approach have therefore been tested over and over again.

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About the Author

Rick F. van der Lans is author of the classic Introduction to SQL, the definitive SQL guide that database developers have relied on for more than 20 years. He is a consultant, author, and lecturer specializing in database technology, development tools, data warehousing, and XML. As managing director of the Netherlands-based R20/Consultancy, he has advised many large companies on defining their IT architectures. He chairs the European Meta Data Conference, and writes columns for several magazines.

From the Back Cover

The Most Complete and Practical Guide to MySQL Version 5’s Powerful SQL Dialect

 

MySQL version 5 offers a SQL dialect with immense power. In SQL for MySQL Developers, Rick F. van der Lans helps you master this version ofSQL and take advantage of its full potential. Using case study examplesand hands-on exercises, van der Lans illuminates every key concept,technique, and statement–including advanced features that make iteasier to create even the most complex statements and programs.

 

Drawing on decades of experience as an SQL standards team member and enterprise consultant, he reveals exactly why MySQL’s dialect works as it does–and how to get the most out of it. You’ll gain powerful insight into everything from basic queries to stored procedures, transactions to data security.

 

Whether you’re a programmer, Web developer, analyst, DBA, or database user, this book can take you from “apprentice” to true SQL expert. If you’ve used SQL in older versions of MySQL, you’ll become dramatically more effective–and if you’re migrating from other database platforms, you’ll gain practical mastery fast.

 

Coverage includes

• Writing queries, including joins, functions, and subqueries
• Updating data
• Creating tables, views, and other database objects
• Specifying keys and other integrity constraints
• Improving efficiency with indexes
• Enforcing security via passwords and privileges
• Embedding SQL statements within PHP programs
• Building stored procedures and triggers
• Using transactions, locking, rollback, and isolation levels
• Utilizing MySQL’s catalog

All of the book’s sample programs are available for download from www.r20.nl.

 

About the Author

Rick F. van der Lans is author of the classic Introduction to SQL, the definitive SQL guide that database developers have relied on for more than 20 years. He is a consultant, author, and lecturer specializing in database technology, development tools, data warehousing, and XML. As managing director of the Netherlands-based R20/Consultancy, he has advised many large companies on defining their IT architectures. He chairs the European Meta Data Conference, and writes columns for several magazines.

 

Contents

About the Author  

Preface    

PART I Introduction    

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to MySQL    

CHAPTER 2 The Tennis Club Sample Database    

CHAPTER 3 Installing the Software    

CHAPTER 4 SQL in a Nutshell    

PART II Querying and Updating Data     

CHAPTER 5 SELECT Statement: Common Elements    

CHAPTER 6 SELECT Statements, Table Expressions, and Subqueries    

CHAPTER 7 SELECT Statement:The FROM Clause    

CHAPTER 8 SELECT Statement: The WHERE Clause    

CHAPTER 9 SELECT Statement: SELECT Clause and Aggregation Functions    

CHAPTER 10 SELECT Statement: The GROUP BY Clause    

CHAPTER 11 SELECT Statement: The HAVING Clause    

CHAPTER 12 SELECT Statement: The ORDER BY Clause    

CHAPTER 13 SELECT Statement: The LIMIT Clause    

CHAPTER 14 Combining Table Expressions    

CHAPTER 15 The User Variable and the SET Statement    

CHAPTER 16 The HANDLER Statement    

CHAPTER 17 Updating Tables    

CHAPTER 18 Loading and Unloading Data    

CHAPTER 19 Working with XML Documents   

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131497359
• ISBN 13: 9780131497351
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1032