MySQL Cookbook - Softcover

Dubois, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596001452 ISBN 13: 9780596001452

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2002

Synopsis

While MySQL has turned up among high profile users such as Yahoo!, NASA and the U.S. Census Bureau, the rising popularity of this open source database is especially keen among users with little database experience. These days, even a small organization or web site has uses for a database, and MySQL is an obvious choice. Affordable and easy to use, MySQL packs the power, speed and efficiency that enable it to rival expensive, proprietary database solutions. Yet, even if you know the basics, anyone without practical MySQL experience--novices and skilled DBAs alike--might stumble over common database-related tasks. Fortunately, there's a sensible shortcut.MySQL Cookbook provides a unique problem-and-solution format that offers practical examples for everyday programming dilemmas. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or "recipe"--short, focused pieces of code that you can insert directly into your applications. But MySQL Cookbook is more than a collection of cut-and-paste code. You also get explanations of how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the techniques to similar situations.The book covers a lot of ground. Solutions for typical MySQL dilemmas range from simple ways to find all records that contain a given string, to more difficult problems, such as finding matching/non-matching records in two tables. Whether you use MySQL on Unix, Linux, Windows or the Mac OS X platform, the book will show you how to:

• Import data from external sources
• Export data for use by external programs
• Access MySQL from your web server
• Use scripts with MySQL to read queries from a file
• Access MySQL from within client programs that use Perl, PHP, Java, Python and other languages
• Construct queries that solve commonly-occurring questions
• Interact with the server

This learn-as-you-go resource will help users of all levels exploit MySQL more fully. MySQL Cookbook supplies you with an armory of ready-made techniques for specific problems so that, even if you're an experienced MySQL user, you don't have to write everything from scratch.

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Review

MySQL Cookbook' is a great book for anyone developing a user interface to a MySQL database. -- Brad Crockett, Big Blue and Cousins, Feb 2003

From the Publisher

MySQL Cookbook provides a unique problem-and-solution format that offers practical examples for everyday programming dilemmas. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or "recipe"--short, focused pieces of code that you can insert directly into your applications. More than a collection of cut-and-paste code, this book explanation how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the techniques to similar situations.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0596001452
• ISBN 13: 9780596001452
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1022