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PHP and MySQL™ Phrasebook
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PHP and MySQL™ Phrasebook

by Christian Wenz
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
4h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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8. Working with MySQL Databases

One of the main strengths of PHP is its support for a vast number of databases. Very often, PHP and MySQL are viewed as an entity. However, other databases have their strengths, too. For instance, it took MySQL quite some time to support features that are considered standard in other systems; however, MySQL is known to be very fast.

This chapter focuses on MySQL, whereas Chapter 9, “Working with Other Databases,” tackles quite a number of other databases. Both chapters show the basic operations with them: connecting, sending SQL statements, and evaluating the return values. No matter what your database-driven web application must do, it always has to do these steps.

To have some test data, we created a database ...

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