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Part IV. APIs and Connectors

This part of the book is a complete reference to database interaction using the most popular languages used with MySQL. Libraries have been created for each language that allow you to connect to a MySQL database and issue SQL statements against it. These permit MySQL to be a backend to other programs or web sites and to hide SQL behind domain-specific, friendly interfaces.

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