MySQL Guides, Tutorials and Books

MySQL is a powerful and robust database technology which can greatly enhance any website. Like all coding technologies it can take time to become adept in MySQL.

An increasing number of books are now available for both the novice and more experienced coder:

PHP and MySQL For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Shows Web developers how to use two popular open source technologies, the PHP scripting language and MySQL database, to build Web database applications.

This updated edition covers changes in PHP 5 and the latest version of MySQL, including programming techniques for the new PHP default setting, methods for handling MySQL security problems, and extended information about Apache Web Server and Mac OS X versions of PHP and MySQL Explains how to install Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X versions of PHP and MySQL

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MySQL Reference Manual

This comprehensive manual was written by the core MySQL developers and read and reviewed by thousands of MySQl users.

Topics range from the basic installation and troubleshooting to detailed information on such features as ACID Transactions and MySQL Replication, which permit clustered applications with high availability and reliability.

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High Performance MySQL

As users come to depend on MySQL, they find that they have to deal with issues of reliability, scalability, and performance--issues that are not well documented but are critical to a smoothly functioning site. This book is an insider's guide to these little understood topics.

Author Jeremy Zawodny has managed large numbers of MySQL servers for mission-critical work at Yahoo!, maintained years of contacts with the MySQL AB team, and presents regularly at conferences. Jeremy and Derek have spent months experimenting, interviewing major users of MySQL, talking to MySQL AB, benchmarking, and writing some of their own tools in order to produce the information in this book.

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MySQL Pocket Reference

Whether you're figuring out which privileges you want to grant a user, trying to remember the different types of joins in a SELECT, or just looking for the right function to return the time, this book will save you time and keep up your momentum.

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