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PHP & MySQL®: Your visual blueprint™ for creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites
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PHP & MySQL®: Your visual blueprint™ for creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites

by Janet Valade
September 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
319 pages
9h 24m
English
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Chapter 7. Using MySQL Databases

How a MySQL Database Works

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) — a system that organizes data into tables that are related to each other. The MySQL software consists of the MySQL server, several utility programs, and some supporting software. The MySQL server is the database manager. It runs all the time, in the background, waiting for instructions. The database is a set of files that contain the data. You can create new databases, add data to databases, and retrieve data from a database by communicating with the server — sending messages that the server executes.

Communicating with the MySQL Server

You can manage your database, retrieve data from it, or add data to it by sending messages to the ...

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