SQL for MySQL Developers

Paperback: 1032 pages

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (April 30, 2007)

Language: English

Download Size: 4.8 Mb

Product Description
The Most Complete and Practical Guide to MySQL Version 5’s Powerful SQL Dialect

MySQL version 5 offers a SQL dialect with immense power. In SQL for MySQL Developers, Rick F. van der Lans helps you master this version ofSQL and take advantage of its full potential. Using case study examplesand hands-on exercises, van der Lans illuminates every key concept,technique, and statement–including advanced features that make iteasier to create even the most complex statements and programs.

Drawing on decades of experience as an SQL standards team member and enterprise consultant, he reveals exactly why MySQL’s dialect works as it does–and how to get the most out of it. You’ll gain powerful insight into everything from basic queries to stored procedures, transactions to data security.

Whether you’re a programmer, Web developer, analyst, DBA, or database user, this book can take you from “apprentice” to true SQL expert. If you’ve used SQL in older versions of MySQL, you’ll become dramatically more effective–and if you’re migrating from other database platforms, you’ll gain practical mastery fast.

Coverage includes

Writing queries, including joins, functions, and subqueries

Updating data

Creating tables, views, and other database objects

Specifying keys and other integrity constraints

Improving efficiency with indexes

Enforcing security via passwords and privileges

Embedding SQL statements within PHP programs

Building stored procedures and triggers

Using transactions, locking, rollback, and isolation levels

Utilizing MySQL’s catalog

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