Sebastopol,CA--With a reputation for being powerful and flexible, as
well as lightweight and efficient, MySQL is one of the most widely used
databases in the world. Among its three million plus installations, you
can find high-profile users such as Yahoo!, NASA, Silicon Graphics, and
the US Census Bureau. Lured by its small price tag (free for
noncommercial use) and its ability to handle very large data sets,
millions of users--from enterprise database administrators to small
organizations or web sites--have chosen MySQL over rival, proprietary
database solutions. And now, with the help of O'Reilly's new MySQL
Cookbook by Paul Dubois (US $49.95), they no longer have to create
their databases from scratch.
"MySQL Cookbook" provides a unique Problem/Solution/Discussion format
that offers quick solutions to everyday programming dilemmas. For every
problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or
"recipe"--a short, focused, ready-to-use piece of code. But "MySQL
Cookbook" is more than a collection of cut-and-paste code. The
discussion section explains how and why the code works, so readers can
learn to adapt the techniques to similar situations. The source code
and sample data used throughout the book are available at a companion
web site, www.kitebird.com/mysql-cookbook/. Author (and network database
administrator) Paul DuBois made sure his book is relevant to all levels
of MySQL users, on several different platforms.
"Many people sense how powerful a tool MySQL is, but don't have a lot
of training to draw on when faced with common, database-related tasks.
This book provides the how-to that will enable them to solve problems
and exploit MySQL more fully," said DuBois. "Experienced MySQL users
will find the book contains a tremendous amount of code that can be
used directly or adapted to similar problems. These 'recipes' save time
by making it easier to develop applications without writing everything
from scratch."
From simple ways to find all records that contain a given string, to
more difficult problems, such as finding matching/non-matching records
in two tables, "MySQL Cookbook" addresses the real-world challenges
that database administrators face every day. Unix, Linux, Windows, and
Mac OS X users will learn how to:
- Import data from external sources
- Export data for use by external programs
- Access MySQL from your web server
- Use scripts with MySQL to read queries from a file
- Access MySQL from within client programs that use Perl, PHP, Java,
Python, and other languages
- Construct queries that solve commonly occurring questions
- Identify, count, and remove duplicate records
"MySQL Cookbook" supplies readers with an armory of ready-made
techniques and tools. It's a book that MySQL users will turn to again
and again as they build and tune their databases.
Additional Resources:
MySQL Cookbook
Paul DuBois
October 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00145-2, 1022 pages, $49.95 US, $77.95 CA
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