Managing & Using MySQL: Open Source SQL Databases for Managing Information & Web Sites - Softcover

King, Tim; Reese, George; Yarger, Randy; Williams, Hugh E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596002114 ISBN 13: 9780596002114

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2002

Synopsis

MySQL is a popular and robust open source database product that supports key subsets of SQL on both Linux and Unix systems. MySQL is free for nonprofit use and costs a small amount for commercial use. Unlike commercial databases, MySQL is affordable and easy to use. This book includes introductions to SQL and to relational database theory. If you plan to use MySQL to build web sites or other Linux or Unix applications, this book teaches you to do that, and it will remain useful as a reference once you understand the basics. Ample tutorial material and examples are included throughout.

This book has all you need to take full advantage of this powerful database management system. It takes you through the whole process from installation and configuration to programming interfaces and database administration. This second edition has a greatly enhanced administration chapter that includes information on administrative tools, server configuration, server startup and shutdown, log file management, database backup and restore, and database administration and repair. In addition, a new chapter on security describes data, server, and client-server security, while a chapter on extending MySQL provides an overview of MySQL internals and describes the use of MySQL user-defined functions.

If you know C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, or Python, you can write programs to interact with your MySQL database. In addition, you can embed queries and updates directly in an HTML file so that a web page becomes its own interface to the database. Managing and Using MySQL includes chapters on the programming language interfaces, and it also includes a complete reference section with specific function calls for each language.

Also included in the reference section are references to the SQL language, and details of the MySQL system variables, programs, and utilities. New to the second edition is a reference to the internal MySQL tables, which will be of particular interest to those who want to work extensively with MySQL security.

About this title

About the Author

George Reese is well known for his superb O'Reilly book, Database Programming with JDBC and Java . He specializes in the development of Internet-oriented Java enterprise systems, and he is the author of the world's first JDBC driver, the mSQL-JDBC driver for mSQL. He currently works as an enterprise systems architect in Minneapolis. Randy Jay Yarger is a senior solutions developer at US Web/CKS in Southfield, Michigan. He combines expertise in database construction and interaction with extensive knowledge of the Internet to create world-class web applications. Tim King is a software consultant in San Francisco, specializing in database and web technologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0596002114
• ISBN 13: 9780596002114
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 442