MySQL Cookbook
April 19th, 2010 by CGI & PHP.com
- ISBN13: 9780596527082
- Condition: USED – GOOD
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Product Description
Along with MySQL's popularity has come a flood of questions about solving specific problems, and that's where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples for programmers of all levels who don't have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch. The new edition covers MySQL 5.0 and its powerful new feat… More >>
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April 19th, 2010 at 8:51 am
If this was a quick reference book, then the information contained would be useful. This, unfortunately is a big book containing a little book's amount of useful info. Save your money and print out the mysql users guide that is available online for free. I found myself using the online guide as a reference even when the book was in front of me.
Bottom line: A wide range of methods for doing things you probably already know how to do if you are using mysql.
Rating: 3 / 5
April 19th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Excellent text well written and logical sequencing of chapters.
Very good for students in their second or third semester of RDBMS studies.
I do not recomend for beginning relational databse students.
Rating: 4 / 5
April 19th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
As with most of the O'Reilly programming languages cookbooks I think this one is excellent. The problem/solution format helps to quickly drill down to what one wants to know. I wish that there was more discussion of the operating system tablespaces (ie. file systems).
Rating: 5 / 5
April 19th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
this is a great book. It has tons of recipes for those 'little things' that could take a lot of time to tackle, but that if you know how to do them, you can sort them out in no time. An excellent book that has helped me to get quick results.
You need to have some knowledge about relational databases and sql and queries. This is not a book for beginners, but rather for someone with a sound knowledge of relational databases, queries and sql, that just don't know the exact syntax for those queries in mysql.
I give this book full 5 stars.
Rating: 5 / 5
April 19th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
I need to learn about MySQL for my small business. My son the computer tech said this was the book I needed to get me up to speed quickly. He was right. It's concise, apparently complete, and easy to understand, even if the subject is a bit mind-bending at times. Without a book like this, I wouldn't enjoy the learning experience; it would be less pleasant than another knee surgery.
This book is highly recommended by a guy who has read a lot of instructional material in a 40-year career that included service as a part-time college instructor…and by his adult son whose computer library cost his dad thousands of dollars.
Rating: 5 / 5