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Book SynopsisMySQL is a robust open source database product that supports key subsets of SQL on both Linux and Unix systems. For those planning to use it this text takes you through the whole process from installation and configuration to programming interfaces and database administration.
Table of ContentsPart I Introduction - MySQL - relational databases, the history of MySQL, MySQL design, MySQL features, MySQL applications, what you get; installation - preparation, Unix installation, Windows installation; SQL according to MySQL - SQL basics database creation, table management, MySQL data types, indexing, managing data, queries, SQL operators, advanced features; database administration - configuration server startup and shutdown, logging, backup, recovery, table maintenance and crash recovery. Part II MySQL administration: performance tuning - an approach to performance tuning, application tuning, database server tuning, operating system/hardware tuning; security - database security, system security, application security; database design - database design primer, normalization, a logical data-modelling methodology, physical database design. Part III MySQL programming: database applications - architecture connections and transactions, object/relational modelling; Perl - introduction to DBI, DBI and CGI, a general model for maintainable Perl programs; Python - DB-API, proprietary operations, applied DB-API; PHP - introducing PHP, installing PHP, accessing the MySQL DBMS with PHP, securing user data, managing sessions - writing data with PHP, using the HTML format environment, where to find out more; C API - API overview, the C API in practice, advanced issues; Java - the JDBC API, simple database access, dynamic database access, a guest book servlet; extending MySQL - user-defined functions, alternative character sets. Part IV MySQL reference: SQL syntax for MySQL - basic syntax, SQL commands, MySQL data types, numeric data types string data types, date data types, complex data types; operators and functions - operators, functions; MySQL PHP API reference - data types functions; C reference - data types, functions; the Python DB-API Module - MySQLdb.
