MySQL

by Paul DuBois

Overview

MySQL, Fifth Edition by Paul DuBois
The definitive guide to using, programming and administering MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6

MySQL provides a comprehensive guide to effectively using and administering the MySQL database management system (DBMS).

Author Paul DuBois describes everything from the basics of getting information into a database and formulating queries, to using MySQL with PHP or Perl to generate dynamic web pages, to writing your own programs that access MySQL databases, to administering MySQL servers. The book also includes a comprehensive reference section providing detailed information on MySQL’s structure, language, syntax, and APIs.

The fifth edition of this bestselling book has been meticulously revised and updated to thoroughly cover the latest features and capabilities of MySQL 5.5, as well as to add new coverage of features introduced with MySQL 5.6.

MySQL is an open source relational database management system (DBMS) that has experienced a phenomenal growth in popularity and use. Known for its speed and ease of use, MySQL has proven itself to be particularly well-suited for developing database-backed websites and applications. MySQL runs on anything from modest hardware all the way up to enterprise servers, and its performance rivals any database system put up against it.

Paul DuBois' MySQL, Fifth Edition, is the definitive guide to fully exploiting all the power and versatility of MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6

Contents at a Glance

Part I: General MySQL Use
Chapter 1 Getting Started with MySQL
Chapter 2 Using SQL to Manage Data
Chapter 3 Data Types
Chapter 4 Views and Stored Programs
Chapter 5 Query Optimization

Part II: Using MySQL Programming Interfaces
Chapter 6 Introduction to MySQL Programming
Chapter 7 Writing MySQL Programs Using C
Chapter 8 Writing MySQL Programs Using Perl DBI
Chapter 9 Writing MySQL Programs Using PHP

Part III: MySQL Administration
Chapter 10 Introduction to MySQL Administration
Chapter 11 The MySQL Data Directory
Chapter 12 General MySQL Administration
Chapter 13 Security and Access Control
Chapter 14 Database Maintenance, Backups, and Replication

Part IV: Appendixes
Appendix A Software Required to Use This Book
Appendix B Data Type Reference
Appendix C Operator and Function Reference
Appendix D System, Status, and User Variable Reference
Appendix E SQL Syntax Reference
Appendix F MySQL Program Reference

Online Appendixes:
Appendix G C API Reference Appendix H Perl DBI API Reference
Appendix I PHP API Reference

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780133038538
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	03/28/2013
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About the Author

Paul DuBois is a writer, database administrator, and leader in the open source and MySQL communities. He has contributed to the online documentation for MySQL and is the author of MySQL and Perl for the Web (New Riders), MySQL Cookbook, Using csh and tcsh, and Software Portability with imake (O’Reilly). He is currently a technical writer with the MySQL documentation team at Oracle Corporation.

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Chapter 1: Introduction to MySQL and SQL

This chapter provides an introduction to the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), and to the Structured Query Language (SQL) that MySQL understands. It lays out basic terms and concepts you should understand, describes the sample database we'll be using for examples throughout the book, and provides a tutorial that shows you how to use MySQL to create a database and interact with it.

Begin here if you are new to databases and perhaps uncertain whether or not you need one or can use one.You should also read the chapter if you don't know anything about MySQL or SQL and need an introductory guide to get started. Readers who have experience with MySQL or with database systems might want to skim through the material. However, everybody should read the section "A Sample Database" because it's best if you're familiar with the purpose and contents of the database that we'll be using repeatedly throughout the book.

How MySQL Can Help You

This section describes situations in which the MySQL database system is useful. This will give you an idea of the kinds of things MySQL can do and the ways in which it can help you. If you don't need to be convinced about the usefulness of a database system-perhaps because you've already got a problem in mind and just want to find out how to put MySQL to work helping you solve it-you can proceed to "A Sample Database."

A database system is essentially just a way to manage lists of information. The information can come from a variety of sources. For example, it can represent research data, business records, customer requests, sports statistics, sales reports, personal hobby information, personnel records, bug reports, or student grades. However, although database systems can deal with a wide range of information, you don't use such a system for its own sake. If a job is easy to do already, there's no reason to drag a database into it just to use one. A grocery list is a good example:You write down the items to get, cross them off as you do your shopping, and then throw the list away. It's highly unlikely that you'd use a database for this. Even if you have a palmtop computer, you'd probably use its notepad function for a grocery list, not its database capabilities.

The power of a database system comes in when the information you want to organize and manage becomes voluminous or complex so that your records become more burdensome than you care to deal with by hand. Databases can be used by large corporations processing millions of transactions a day, of course. But even small-scale operations involving a single person maintaining information of personal interest may require a database. It's not difficult to think of situations in which the use of a database can be beneficial because you needn't have huge amounts of information before that information becomes difficult to manage. Consider the following situations:

• Your carpentry business has several employees.You need to maintain employee and payroll records so that you know who you've paid and when, and you must summarize those records so that you can report earnings statements to the government for tax purposes. You also need to keep track of the jobs your company has been hired to do and which employees you've scheduled to work on each job.
• You run a network of automobile parts warehouses and need to be able to tell which ones have any given part in their inventory so that you can fill customer orders.

• As a toy seller, you're particularly subject to fad-dependent demand for items that you carry.You want to know what the current sales trajectory is for certain items so that you can estimate whether to increase inventory (for an item that's becoming more popular) or decrease it (so you're not stuck with a lot of stock for something that's no longer selling well).

• That pile of research data you've been collecting over the course of many years needs to be analyzed for publication, lest the dictum "publish or perish" become the epitaph for your career.You want to boil down large amounts of raw data to generate summary information, and to pull out selected subsets of observations for more detailed statistical analysis.

• You're a popular speaker who travels the country to many types of assemblies, such as graduations, business meetings, civic organizations, and political conventions.You give so many addresses that it's difficult to remember what you've spoken on at each place you've been, so you'd like to maintain records of your past talks and use them to help you plan future engagements. If you return to a place at which you've spoken before, you don't want to give a talk similar to one you've already delivered there, and a record of each place you've been would help you avoid repeats.You'd also like to note how wen your talks are received. (Your address "Why I Love Cats" to the Metropolitan Kennel Club was something of a dud, and you don't want to make that mistake again the next time you're there.)

• You're a teacher who needs to keep track of grades and attendance. Each time you give a quiz or a test, you record every student's grade. It's easy enough to write down scores in a gradebook, but using the scores later is a tedious chore. You'd rather avoid sorting the scores for each test to determine the grading curve, and you'd really rather not add up each student's scores when you determine final grades at the end of the grading period. Counting each student's absences is no fun, either.

• The organization for which you are the secretary maintains a directory of members. (The organization could be anything-a professional society, a club, a repertory company, a symphony orchestra, or an athletic booster club.) You generate the directory in printed form each year for members, based on a word processor document that you edit as membership information changes.

You're tired of maintaining the directory that way because it limits what you can do with it. It's difficult to sort the entries in different ways, and you can't easily select just certain parts of each entry (such as a list consisting only of names and phone numbers). Nor can you easily find a subset of members, such as those who need to renew their memberships soon-if you could, it would eliminate the job of looking through the entries each month to find those members who need to be sent renewal notices.

Also, you'd really like to avoid doing all the directory editing yourself, but the society doesn't have much of a budget, and hiring someone is out of the question.You've heard about the "paperless office" that's supposed to result from electronic record-keeping, but you haven't seen any benefit from it. The membership records are electronic, but, ironically, aren't in a form that can be used easily for anything except generating paper by printing the directory!

These scenarios range from situations involving large amounts to relatively small amounts of information. They share the common characteristic of involving tasks that can be performed manually but that could be performed more efficiently by a database system.

What specific benefits should you expect to see from using a database system such as MySQL? It depends on your particular needs and requirements-and as seen in the...

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: General MySQL Use

Chapter 1 Getting Started with MySQL

1.1 How MySQL Can Help You

1.2 A Sample Database

1.2.1 The U.S. Historical League Project

1.2.2 The Grade-Keeping Project

1.2.3 How the Sample Database Applies to You

1.3 Basic Database Terminology

1.3.1 Structural Terminology

1.3.2 Query Language Terminology

1.3.3 MySQL Architectural Terminology

1.4 A MySQL Tutorial

1.4.1 Obtaining the Sample Database Distribution

1.4.2 Preliminary Requirements

1.4.3 Establishing and Terminating Connections to the MySQL Server

1.4.4 Executing SQL Statements

1.4.5 Creating a Database

1.4.6 Creating Tables

1.4.7 Adding New Rows

1.4.8 Resetting the sampdb Database to a Known State

1.4.9 Retrieving Information

1.4.10 Deleting or Updating Existing Rows

1.5 Tips for Interacting with mysql

1.5.1 Simplifying the Connection Process

1.5.2 Issuing Statements with Less Typing

1.6 Where to Now?

Chapter 2 Using SQL to Manage Data

2.1 The Server SQL Mode

2.2 MySQL Identifier Syntax and Naming Rules

2.3 Case Sensitivity in SQL Statements

2.4 Character Set Support

2.4.1 Specifying Character Sets

2.4.2 Determining Character Set Availability and Current Settings

2.4.3 Unicode Support

2.5 Selecting, Creating, Dropping, and Altering Databases

2.5.1 Selecting Databases

2.5.2 Creating Databases

2.5.3 Dropping Databases

2.5.4 Altering Databases

2.6 Creating, Dropping, Indexing, and Altering Tables

2.6.1 Storage Engine Characteristics

2.6.2 Creating Tables

2.6.3 Dropping Tables

2.6.4 Indexing Tables

2.6.5 Altering Table Structure

2.7 Obtaining Database Metadata

2.7.1 Obtaining Metadata with SHOW

2.7.2 Obtaining Metadata with INFORMATION_SCHEMA

2.7.3 Obtaining Metadata from the Command Line

2.8 Performing Multiple-Table Retrievals with Joins

2.8.1 Inner Joins

2.8.2 Qualifying References to Columns from Joined Tables

2.8.3 Left and Right (Outer) Joins

2.9 Performing Multiple-Table Retrievals with Subqueries

2.9.1 Subqueries with Relative Comparison Operators

2.9.2 IN and NOT IN Subqueries

2.9.3 ALL, ANY, and SOME Subqueries

2.9.4 EXISTS and NOT EXISTS Subqueries

2.9.5 Correlated Subqueries

2.9.6 Subqueries in the FROM Clause

2.9.7 Rewriting Subqueries as Joins

2.10 Performing Multiple-Table Retrievals with UNION

2.11 Multiple-Table Deletes and Updates

2.12 Performing Transactions

2.12.1 Using Transactions to Ensure Safe Statement Execution

2.12.2 Using Transaction Savepoints

2.12.3 Transaction Isolation

2.13 Foreign Keys and Referential Integrity

2.14 Using FULLTEXT Searches

2.14.1 Natural Language FULLTEXT Searches

2.14.2 Boolean Mode FULLTEXT Searches

2.14.3 Query Expansion FULLTEXT Searches

2.14.4 Configuring the FULLTEXT Search Engine

Chap ter 3 Data Types

3.1 Data Value Categories

3.1.1 Numeric Values

3.1.2 String Values

3.1.3 Temporal (Date and Time) Values

3.1.4 Spatial Values

3.1.5 Boolean Values

3.1.6 The NULL Value

3.2 MySQL Data Types

3.2.1 Data Type Overview

3.2.2 Specifying Column Types in Table Definitions

3.2.3 Specifying Column Default Values

3.2.4 Numeric Data Types

3.2.5 String Data Types

3.2.6 Temporal (Date and Time) Data Types

3.3 How MySQL Handles Invalid Data Values

3.4 Working with Sequences

3.4.1 General AUTO_INCREMENT Properties

3.4.2 Storage Engine-Specific AUTO_INCREMENT Properties

3.4.3 Issues to Consider with AUTO_INCREMENT Columns

3.4.4 Tips for Working with AUTO_INCREMENT Columns

3.4.5 Generating Sequences Without AUTO_INCREMENT

3.5 Expression Evaluation and Type Conversion

3.5.1 Writing Expressions

3.5.2 Type Conversion

3.6 Choosing Data Types

3.6.1 What Kind of Values Will the Column Hold?

3.6.2 Do Your Values Lie Within Some Particular Range?

Chapter 4 Views and Stored Programs

4.1 Using Views

4.2 Using Stored Programs

4.2.1 Compound Statements and Statement Delimiters

4.2.2 Stored Functions and Procedures

4.2.3 Triggers

4.2.4 Events

4.3 Security for Views and Stored Programs

Chapter 5 Query Optimization

5.1 Using Indexing

5.1.1 Benefits of Indexing

5.1.2 Costs of Indexing

5.1.3 Choosing Indexes

5.2 The MySQL Query Optimizer

5.2.1 How the Optimizer Works

5.2.2 Using EXPLAIN to Check Optimizer Operation

5.3 Choosing Data Types for Efficient Queries

5.4 Choosing Table Storage Formats for Efficient Queries

5.5 Loading Data Efficiently

5.6 Scheduling, Locking, and Concurrency

Part II: Using MySQL Programming Interfaces

Chapter 6 Introduction to MySQL Programming

6.1 Why Write Your Own MySQL Programs?

6.2 APIs Available for MySQL

6.2.1 The C API

6.2.2 The Perl DBI API

6.2.3 The PHP API

6.3 Choosing an API

6.3.1 Execution Environment

6.3.2 Performance

6.3.3 Development Time

6.3.4 Portability

Chapter 7 Writing MySQL Programs Using C

7.1 Compiling and Linking Client Programs

7.2 Connecting to the Server

7.3 Handling Errors and Processing Command Options

7.3.1 Checking for Errors

7.3.2 Getting Connection Parameters at Runtime

7.3.3 Incorporating Option Processing into a Client Program

7.4 Processing SQL Statements

7.4.1 Handling Statements That Modify Rows

7.4.2 Handling Statements That Return a Result Set

7.4.3 A General-Purpose Statement Handler

7.4.4 Alternative Approaches to Statement Processing

7.4.5 mysql_store_result() Versus mysql_use_result()

7.4.6 Using Result Set Metadata

7.4.7 Encoding Special Characters and Binary Data

7.5 An Interactive Statement-Execution Program

7.6 Writing Clients That Include SSL Support

7.7 Using Multiple-Statement Execution

7.8 Using Server-Side Prepared Statements

7.9 Using Prepared CALL Support

Chapter 8 Writing MySQL Programs Using Perl DBI

8.1 Perl Script Characteristics

8.2 Perl DBI Overview

8.2.1 DBI Data Types

8.2.2 A Simple DBI Script

8.2.3 Handling Errors

8.2.4 Handling Statements That Modify Rows

8.2.5 Handling Statements That Return a Result Set

8.2.6 Quoting Special Characters in Statement Strings

8.2.7 Placeholders and Prepared Statements

8.2.8 Binding Query Results to Script Variables

8.2.9 Specifying Connection Parameters

8.2.10 Debugging

8.2.11 Using Result Set Metadata

8.2.12 Performing Transactions

8.3 Putting DBI to Work

8.3.1 Generating the Historical League Directory

8.3.2 Sending Membership Renewal Notices

8.3.3 Historical League Member Entry Editing

8.3.4 Finding Historical League Members with Common Interests

8.3.5 Putting the Historical League Directory Online

8.4 Using DBI in Web Applications

8.4.1 Setting Up Apache for CGI Scripts

8.4.2 A Brief CGI.pm Primer

8.4.3 Connecting to the MySQL Server from Web Scripts

8.4.4 A Web-Based Database Browser

8.4.5 A Grade-Keeping Project Score Browser

8.4.6 Historical League Common-Interest Searching

Chapter 9 Writing MySQL Programs Using PHP

9.1 PHP Overview

9.1.1 A Simple PHP Script

9.1.2 Using PHP Library Files for Code Encapsulation

9.1.3 A Simple Data-Retrieval Page

9.1.4 Processing Statement Results

9.1.5 Testing for NULL Values in Query Results

9.1.6 Using Prepared Statements

9.1.7 Using Placeholders to Handle Data Quoting Issues

9.1.8 Handling Errors

9.2 Putting PHP to Work

9.2.1 An Online Score-Entry Application

9.2.2 Creating an Interactive Online Quiz

9.2.3 Historical League Online Member Entry Editing

Part III: MySQL Administration

Chapter 10 Introduction to MySQL Administration

10.1 MySQL Components

10.2 General MySQL Administration

10.3 Access Control and Security

10.4 Database Maintenance, Backups, and Replication

Chapter 11 The MySQL Data Directory

11.1 The Data Directory Location

11.2 Structure of the Data Directory

11.2.1 How the MySQL Server Provides Access to Data

11.2.2 Representation of Databases in the Filesystem

11.2.3 Representation of Tables in the Filesystem

11.2.4 Representation of Views and Triggers in the Filesystem

11.2.5 How SQL Statements Map onto Table File Operations

11.2.6 Operating System Constraints on Database Object Names

11.2.7 Factors That Affect Maximum Table Size

11.2.8 Implications of Data Directory Structure for System Performance

11.2.9 MySQL Status and Log Files

11.3 Relocating Data Directory Contents

11.3.1 Relocation Methods

11.3.2 Relocation Precautions

11.3.3 Assessing the Effect of Relocation

11.3.4 Relocating the Entire Data Directory

11.3.5 Relocating Individual Databases

11.3.6 Relocating Individual Tables

11.3.7 Relocating the InnoDB System Tablespace

11.3.8 Relocating Status and Log Files

Chapter 12 General MySQL Administration

12.1 Securing a New MySQL Installation

12.1.1 Establishing Passwords for the Initial MySQL Accounts

12.1.2 Setting Up Passwords for Additional Servers

12.2 Arranging for MySQL Server Startup and Shutdown

12.2.1 Running the MySQL Server On Unix

12.2.2 Running the MySQL Server On Windows

12.2.3 Specifying Server Startup Options

12.2.4 Controlling How the Server Listens for Connections

12.2.5 Stopping the Server

12.2.6 Regaining Control of the Server When You Cannot Connect to It

12.3 Using System and Status Variables

12.3.1 Checking and Setting System Variable Values

12.3.2 Checking Status Variable Values

12.4 The Plugin Interface

12.5 Storage Engine Configuration

12.5.1 Selecting Storage Engines

12.5.2 Selecting a Default Storage Engine

12.5.3 Configuring the InnoDB Storage Engine

12.6 Globalization Issues

12.6.1 Configuring Time Zone Support

12.6.2 Selecting the Default Character Set and Collation

12.6.3 Selecting the Language for Error Messages

12.6.4 Selecting the Locale

12.7 Server Tuning

12.7.1 General-Purpose System Variables for Server Tuning

12.7.2 Storage Engine Tuning

12.7.3 Using the Query Cache

12.7.4 Hardware Optimizations

12.8 Server Logs

12.8.1 The Error Log

12.8.2 The General Query Log

12.8.3 The Slow Query Log

12.8.4 The Binary Log

12.8.5 The Relay Log

12.8.6 Using Log Tables

12.8.7 Log Management

12.9 Running Multiple Servers

12.9.1 General Multiple Server Issues

12.9.2 Configuring and Compiling Different Servers

12.9.3 Strategies for Specifying Startup Options

12.9.4 Using mysqld_multi for Server Management

12.9.5 Running Multiple Servers on Windows

12.9.6 Running Clients of Multiple Servers

12.10 Updating MySQL

Chapter 13 Security and Access Control

13.1 Securing Filesystem Access to MySQL

13.1.1 How to Steal Data

13.1.2 Securing Your MySQL Installation

13.2 Managing MySQL User Accounts

13.2.1 High-Level MySQL Account Management

13.2.2 Granting Privileges

13.2.3 Displaying Account Privileges

13.2.4 Revoking Privileges

13.2.5 Changing Passwords or Resetting Lost Passwords

13.2.6 Avoiding Access-Control Risks

13.2.7 Pluggable Authentication and Proxy Users

13.3 Grant Table Structure and Contents

13.3.1 Grant Table Scope-of-Access Columns

13.3.2 Grant Table Privilege Columns

13.3.3 Grant Table Authentication Columns

13.3.4 Grant Table SSL-Related Columns

13.3.5 Grant Table Resource Management Columns

13.4 How the Server Controls Client Access

13.4.1 Scope Column Contents

13.4.2 Statement Access Verification

13.4.3 Scope Column Matching Order

13.4.4 A Privilege Puzzle

13.5 Setting Up Secure Connections Using SSL

Chapter 14 Database Maintenance, Backups, and Replication

14.1 Principles of Preventive Maintenance

14.2 Performing Database Maintenance with the Server Running

14.2.1 Locking Individual Tables for Read-Only or Read/Write Access

14.2.2 Locking All Databases for Read-Only Access

14.3 General Preventive Maintenance

14.3.1 Using the Server’s Auto-Recovery Capabilities

14.3.2 Scheduling Preventive Maintenance

14.4 Making Database Backups

14.4.1 Storage Engine Portability Characteristics

14.4.2 Making Text Backups with mysqldump

14.4.3 Making Binary Database Backups

14.4.4 Backing Up InnoDB Tables

14.5 Copying Databases to Another Server

14.5.1 Copying Databases Using a Backup File

14.5.2 Copying Databases from One Server to Another

14.6 Checking and Repairing Database Tables

14.6.1 Checking Tables with CHECK TABLE

14.6.2 Repairing Tables with REPAIR TABLE

14.6.3 Using mysqlcheck to Check and Repair Tables

14.7 Using Backups for Data Recovery

14.7.1 Recovering Entire Databases

14.7.2 Recovering Individual Tables

14.7.3 Re-Executing Statements in Binary Log Files

14.7.4 Coping with InnoDB Auto-Recovery Problems

14.8 Setting Up Replication Servers

14.8.1 How Replication Works

14.8.2 Establishing a Master-Slave Replication Relationship

14.8.3 Binary Logging Formats

14.8.4 Using a Replication Slave for Making Backups

Part IV: Appendixes

Note: Appendixes G, H, and I are located online and are accessible either by registering this book at informit.com/register or visiting www.kitebird.com/mysql-book

Appendix A Software Required to Use This Book

A.1 Obtaining the sampdb Sample Database Distribution

A.2 Obtaining MySQL and Related Software

A.3 MySQL Installation Notes

A.3.1 Creating a Login Account for the MySQL User

A.3.2 Installing MySQL

A.3.3 Setting Your PATH Environment Variable

A.3.4 Initializing the Data Directory and Grant Tables

A.3.5 Starting the Server

A.3.6 Initializing Other System Tables

A.4 Perl DBI Installation Notes

A.5 PHP and PDO Installation Notes

Appendix B Data Type Reference

B.1 Numeric Types

B.1.1 Integer Types

B.1.2 Fixed-Point Types

B.1.3 Floating-Point Types

B.1.4 BIT Type

B.2 String Types

B.2.1 Binary String Types

B.2.2 Nonbinary String Types

B.2.3 ENUM and SET Types

B.3 Temporal (Date and Time) Types

Appendix C Operator and Function Reference

C.1 Operators

C.1.1 Operator Precedence

C.1.2 Grouping Operators

C.1.3 Arithmetic Operators

C.1.4 Comparison Operators

C.1.5 Bit Operators

C.1.6 Logical Operators

C.1.7 Cast Operators

C.1.8 Pattern-Matching Operators

C.2 Functions

C.2.1 Comparison Functions

C.2.2 Cast Functions

C.2.3 Numeric Functions

C.2.4 String Functions

C.2.5 Date and Time Functions

C.2.6 Summary Functions

C.2.7 Security and Compression Functions

C.2.8 Advisory Locking Functions

C.2.9 IP Address Functions

C.2.10 XML Functions

C.2.11 Spatial Functions

C.2.12 Miscellaneous Functions

Appendix D System, Status, and User Variable Reference

D.1 System Variables

D.1.1 InnoDB System Variables

D.2 Status Variables

D.2.1 InnoDB Status Variables

D.2.2 Query Cache Status Variables

D.2.3 SSL Status Variables

D.3 User-Defined Variables

Appendix E SQL Syntax Reference

E.1 SQL Statement Syntax (Noncompound Statements)

E.2 SQL Statement Syntax (Compound Statements)

E.2.1 Control Structure Statements

E.2.2 Declaration Statements

E.2.3 Cursor Statements

E.2.4 Condition-Handling Statements

E.3 Comment Syntax

Appendix F MySQL Program Reference

F.1 Displaying a Program’s Help Message

F.2 Specifying Program Options

F.2.1 Standard MySQL Program Options

F.2.2 Option Files

F.2.3 Environment Variables

F.3 myisamchk

F.3.1 Standard Options Supported by myisamchk

F.3.2 Options Specific to myisamchk

F.3.3 Variables for myisamchk

F.4 mysql

F.4.1 Standard Options Supported by mysql

F.4.2 Options Specific to mysql

F.4.3 Variables for mysql

F.4.4 mysql Commands

F.4.5 mysql Prompt Definition Sequences

F.5 mysql.server

F.5.1 Options Supported by mysql.server

F.6 mysql_config

F.6.1 Options Specific to mysql_config

F.7 mysql_install_db

F.7.1 Standard Options Supported by mysql_install_db

F.7.2 Options Specific to mysql_install_db

F.8 mysql_upgrade

F.8.1 Standard Options Supported by mysql_upgrade

F.8.2 Options Specific to mysql_upgrade

F.9 mysqladmin

F.9.1 Standard Options Supported by mysqladmin

F.9.2 Options Specific to mysqladmin

F.9.3 Variables for mysqladmin

F.9.4 mysqladmin Commands

F.10 mysqlbinlog

F.10.1 Standard Options Supported by mysqlbinlog

F.10.2 Options Specific to mysqlbinlog

F.10.3 Variables for mysqlbinlog

F.11 mysqlcheck

F.11.1 Standard Options Supported by mysqlcheck

F.11.2 Options Specific to mysqlcheck

F.12 mysqld 1

F.12.1 Standard Options Supported by mysqld

F.12.2 Options Specific to mysqld

F.12.3 Variables for mysqld

F.13 mysqld_multi

F.13.1 Standard Options Supported by mysqld_multi

F.13.2 Options Specific to mysqld_multi

F.14 mysqld_safe

F.14.1 Standard Options Supported by mysqld_safe

F.14.2 Options Specific to mysqld_safe

F.15 mysqldump

F.15.1 Standard Options Supported by mysqldump

F.15.2 Options Specific to mysqldump

F.15.3 Data Format Options for mysqldump

F.15.4 Variables for mysqldump

F.16 mysqlimport

F.16.2 Options Specific to mysqlimport

F.16.3 Data Format Options for mysqlimport

F.17 mysqlshow

F.17.1 Standard Options Supported by mysqlshow

F.17.2 Options Specific to mysqlshow

F.18 perror

F.18.1 Standard Options Supported by perror

Appendix G C API Reference (Online Only) 

G.1 Compiling and Linking

G.2 C API Data Structures

G.2.1 Scalar Data Types

G.2.2 Nonscalar Data Structures

G.2.3 Accessor Macros

G.3 C API Functions

G.3.1 Client Library Initialization and Termination Routines

G.3.2 Connection Management Routines

G.3.3 Error-Reporting Routines

G.3.4 Statement Construction and Execution Routines

G.3.5 Result Set Processing Routines

G.3.6 Multiple Result Set Routines

G.3.7 Information Routines

G.3.8 Transaction Control Routines

G.3.9 Prepared Statement Routines

G.3.10 Administrative Routines

G.3.11 Threaded Client Routines

G.3.12 Debugging Routines

Appendix H Perl DBI API Reference (Online Only)

H.1 Writing Scripts

H.2 DBI Methods

H.2.1 DBI Class Methods

H.2.2 Database-Handle Methods

H.2.3 Statement-Handle Methods

H.2.4 General Handle Methods

H.2.5 MySQL-Specific Administrative Methods

H.3 DBI Utility Functions

H.4 DBI Attributes

H.4.1 Database-Handle Attributes

H.4.2 General Handle Attributes

H.4.3 MySQL-Specific Database-Handle Attributes

H.4.4 Statement-Handle Attributes

H.4.5 MySQL-Specific Statement-Handle Attributes

H.4.6 Dynamic Attributes

H.5 DBI Environment Variables

Appendix I PHP API Reference (Online Only) 

I.1 Writing PHP Scripts

I.2 PDO Classes

I.3 PDO Methods

I.3.1 PDO Class Methods

I.3.2 PDOStatement Object Methods

I.3.3 PDOException Object Methods

I.3.4 PDO Constants

Note: Appendixes G, H, and I are located online and are accessible either by registering this book at informit.com/register or visiting www.kitebird.com/mysql-book

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MySql is a very popular relational database for a number of reasons: it is free for most applications; while not open source it is heavily used by the open source community; and it runs easily on Windows and UNIX. The author's approach is to use two sample databases to explain SQL (structured query) databases with Perl, PHP, and C; administering MySql; and security. This book will be very popular with users who already understand relational databases and are trying to move from Microsoft or Oracle to MySql. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

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