Chapter 2
Building and Querying MySQL Databases
IN THIS CHAPTER
Learning about MySQL and what it can do
Building MySQL databases and tables
Getting your head around SQL
Selecting data with queries
Modifying data with queries
MySQL is a fast and powerful, yet easy-to-use, database system that offers just about anything a website would need in order to find and serve up data to browsers.
— ROBIN NIXON
One of the central themes of this book is that today’s web is all about dynamic content. Sure, if you have (or your client has) just one or two web pages to show the world, the standard front-end web development tools — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — are more than enough to get the job done. However, it’s much more likely that a modern website will consist of dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of pages, with new content added regularly. Believe me, as the developer or administrator of such a site, you don’t want to hand-code all those pages as static HTML and CSS. Life’s too short!
Fortunately, ...
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