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MySQL and mSQL are popular and robust database products that support key subsets of SQL on both Linux and Unix systems. Both products are free for nonprofit use and cost a small amount for commercial use.
Even a small organization or web site has uses for a database. Perhaps you keep track of all your customers and find that your information is outgrowing the crude, flat-file format you started with. Or you want to ask your web site's visitors for their interests and preferences and put up a fresh web page that tallies the results.
Unlike commercial databases, MySQL and mSQL are affordable and easy to use. If you know basic C, Java, Perl, or Python, you can quickly write a program to interact with your database. In addition, you can embed queries and updates right in an HTML file so that a web page becomes its own interface to the database.
This book is all you need to make use of MySQL or mSQL. It takes you through the whole process from installation and configuration to programming interfaces and basic administration. Includes reference chapters and ample tutorial material.
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Geared toward administrators and programmers, this guide provides an excellent introduction to MySQL (mini-SQL) and mSQL installation, configuration and programming. For maximum benefit, you should be an advanced Linux or UNIX user, and have a basic knowledge of scripting with languages such as Perl and Python. Knowledge of relational database concepts and queries (SQL) would also be helpful.
PrefaceGetting Started with MySQL and mSQLChapter 1: Introduction to Relational DatabasesChapter 2: Database Design Chapter 3: InstallationChapter 4: MySQLChapter 5: mSQLChapter 6: SQL According to MySQL and mSQLChapter 7: Other Mid-Range Database EnginesDatabase ProgrammingChapter 8: Database Application ArchitecturesChapter 9: CGI ProgrammingChapter 10: PerlChapter 11: PythonChapter 12: PHP and Other Support for Database-driven HTMLChapter 13: C and C++Chapter 14: Java and JDBCReferenceChapter 15: SQL ReferenceChapter 16: MySQL and mSQL System VariablesChapter 17: MySQL and mSQL Programs and UtilitiesChapter 18: PHP and Lite ReferenceChapter 19: C ReferenceChapter 20: Python ReferenceChapter 21: Perl ReferenceChapter 22: JDBC ReferenceColophon
This book teaches you how to use MySQL and mSQL, two popular, easy-to-use databases forLinux and UNIX systems that support key subsets of SQL. Anyone who knows basic C, Java, Perl,or Python can write a program to interact with a database, either as a stand-alone application orthrough a Web page. This book takes you through the whole process, from installation andconfiguration to programming interfaces and basic administration. Includes ample tutorial material.
Anonymous
Posted April 5, 2001
This book is another in the long line of excellent titles by this company. Chapter two has to be one of the (if not the) best discussions of proper database structure ever written. Kudos to the authors. Great content clearly presented...
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Posted June 14, 2000
This is a decent survey of what you need to know to write a MySQL or mSQL database. It briefly discusses the difference between the two, gives a short intro to database design, and gives some bare-bones info about some of the SQL commands you might want. It also includes sections on interfacing with these databases in different programming languages. However, almost all of these sections are inadequate. It provides a survey of the possibilities, but never a comprehensive description. You could implement a database with it, but not very easily, and it won't be a very good one. Instead, if you know you're using MySQL, there is a superb book that covers everything this one does (and more), but does it right. It is called MySQL, by Paul DuBois. This book is an excellent tutorial and a comprehensive reference, and you should definitely buy it before even thinking of buying MySQL and mSQL.
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Overview
MySQL and mSQL are popular and robust database products that support key subsets of SQL on both Linux and Unix systems. Both products are free for nonprofit use and cost a small amount for commercial use.
Even a small organization or web site has uses for a database. Perhaps you keep track of all your customers and find that your information is outgrowing the crude, flat-file format you started with. Or you want to ask your web site's visitors ...