April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
21h 55m
English
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Preface
MySQL is the most popular open source database system available. Although it’s free, it’s still very dependable and fast, and is being employed increasingly in areas that used to be the province of Oracle or MS SQL Server. Thanks to a variety of utilities packaged with MySQL, administration is fairly effortless. With its several application programming interfaces (APIs), it’s easy to develop your own software to interface with MySQL.
This book provides a quick reference to MySQL statements and functions, the administrative utilities, and the most popular APIs. The first few chapters are designed to help you to get started with MySQL. Each chapter on an API also starts with a tutorial.
When this book was written, version 5.0 of MySQL was generally available, and early releases of the development versions of 5.1 and 6.0 were available but not yet stable. As a result, you will find mostly features from version 5.0.x in this book. Features that appear only in newer versions are noted as such.
The Purpose of This Book
The purpose of this book is to provide a quick reference to:
MySQL statements and functions
Command-line options and configuration information for the MySQL server and utilities
The most popular APIs used to access MySQL databases
Several chapters start with tutorials, but the central purpose of the book is to fill in the gaps for people who are already comfortable with relational databases.
The format that I’ve followed for a description of each statement or function is ...
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