The Best MySQL Books of All Time

Provides an in-depth guide to combining the two open source tools to create dynamic Web sites, updated to incorporate the new features of PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5.1, that encompasses a new section on Ajax, enhanced focus on security issues and Web security, coverage of the PEAR repository of PHP extensions and applications, and new projects. Original. (Intermediate).

How can you realize MySQL's full power? With High Performance MySQL, you'll learn advanced techniques for everything from setting service-level objectives to designing schemas, indexes, and queries to tuning your server, operating system, and hardware to achieve your platform's full potential. This guide also teaches database administrators safe and practical ways to scale applications through replication, load balancing, high availability, and failover.

Updated to reflect recent advances in cloud- and self-hosted MySQL, InnoDB performance, and new features and tools, this revised edition helps you design a relational data platform that will scale with your business. You'll learn best practices for database security along with hard-earned lessons in both performance and database stability. Dive into MySQL's architecture, including key facts about its storage engines Learn how server configuration works with your hardware and deployment choices Make query performance part of your software delivery process Examine enhancements to MySQL's replication and high availability Compare different MySQL offerings in managed cloud environments Explore MySQL's full stack optimization from application-side configuration to server tuning Turn traditional database management tasks into automated processes.

Learning MySQL just got a whole lot easier, thanks to this hands-on workshop, complete with simple explanations, engaging examples, and realistic exercises that focus on helping you to build and maintain databases effectively. Key FeaturesLearn how to set up and maintain a MySQL databaseRun SQL queries to create, retrieve, and manipulate dataUse MySQL effectively with common business applications such as Excel and MS AccessBook DescriptionDo you want to learn how to create and maintain databases effectively? Are you looking for simple answers to basic MySQL questions as well as straightforward examples that you can use at work?

If so, this workshop is the right choice for you. Designed to build your confidence through hands-on practice, this book uses a simple approach that focuses on the practical, so you can get straight down to business without having to wade through pages and pages of dull, dry theory. As you work through bite-sized exercises and activities, you'll learn how to use different MySQL tools to create a database and manage the data within it. You'll see how to transfer data between a MySQL database and other sources, and use real-world datasets to gain valuable experience of manipulating and gaining insights from data. As you progress, you'll discover how to protect your database by managing user permissions and performing logical backups and restores. If you've already tried to teach yourself SQL, but haven't been able to make the leap from understanding simple queries to working on live projects with a real database management system, The MySQL Workshop will get you on the right track. By the end of this MySQL book, you'll have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to advance your career and tackle your own ambitious projects with MySQL. What you will learnUnderstand the concepts of relational databases and document storesUse SQL queries, stored procedures, views, functions, and transactionsConnect to and manipulate data using MS Access, MS Excel, and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)Read and write data in the CSV or JSON format using MySQLManage data while running MySQL Shell in JavaScript modeUse X DevAPI to access a NoSQL interface for MySQLManage user roles, credentials, and privileges to keep data securePerform a logical database backup with mysqldump and mysqlpumpWho this book is forThis book is for anyone who wants to learn how to use MySQL in a productive, efficient way. If you're totally new to MySQL, it'll help you get started or if you've used MySQL before, it'll fill in any gaps, consolidate key concepts, and offer valuable hands-on practice. Prior knowledge of simple SQL or basic programming techniques will help you in quickly grasping the concepts covered, but is not necessary. Table of ContentsBackground ConceptsCreating a DatabaseUsing SQL to Work with a DatabaseSelecting, Aggregating, and Applying FunctionsCorrelating Data across TablesStored Procedures and Other ObjectsCreating Database Clients in Node.jsWorking with Data using Node.jsMicrosoft Access Part 1Microsoft Access Part 2MS Excel VBA and MySQL - Part 1MS Excel VBA and MySQL - Part 2Getting Data into MySQLManipulating User PermissionsLogical Backups.