MySQL Cookbook

by Paul DuBois

MySQL� s popularity has brought a flood of questions about how to solve specific problems, and that� s where this cookbook is essential. When you need quick solutions or techniques, this handy resource provides scores of short, focused pieces of code, hundreds of worked-out examples, and clear, concise explanations for programmers who don� t have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch.

Ideal for beginners and professional database and web developers, this updated third edition covers powerful features in MySQL 5.6 (and some in 5.7). The book focuses on programming APIs in Python, PHP, Java, Perl, and Ruby. With more than 200+ recipes, you� ll learn how to:

Use the mysql client and write MySQL-based programs
Create, populate, and select data from tables
Store, retrieve, and manipulate strings
Work with dates and times
Sort query results and generate summaries
Use stored routines, triggers, and scheduled events
Import, export, validate, and reformat data
Perform transactions and work with statistics
Process web input, and generate web content from query results
Use MySQL-based web session management
Provide security and server administration

Genres: Programming, Reference, Nonfiction, Technology, Technical, Ebooks, Website Design

1022 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

About the author

Paul DuBois is the author of MySQL (Addison-Wesley Professional); MySQL Cookbook, Using csh & tcsh, and Software Portability with imake (O'Reilly); and MySQL and Perl for the Web (New Riders).

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I rarely read programming books, and even more infrequently have anything nice to say about them. But I found this book to be a great list of recipes, suggestions, and insider's tips for writing good SQL (Standard Query Language -- the language you use to talk to relational databases).

Paul Dubois is a notable expert in the field anyway. If I recall correctly, he's the documentation lead for the MySQL project. Thus, he's certainly well qualified to write something like this.

The tips (or most of them, at least) are highly readable, often practical, and are accompanied with illuminating text (not to be confused with ILLUMINATED text, which would certainly be a first in the programming world).

One thing was noticeably absent, though: tips on tuning queries. Dear Paul Dubois: If you ever read this, please add a section on tuning queries, using EXPLAIN, and improving overall DB performance.

[Chris Patterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my goto book for SQL scripts. If there is an issue I'm having with something deep I can merge the concepts and scripts in this book to get the result I'm looking for.

[Michael Milawski · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book for mysql. It contains not only many sql queries but also solutions for problems that are not really solvable by sql queries alone, it shows code examples for that matter. It also shows ways of how to configure the server correctly. Very useful book.

[Leonardo]

Recomendado en Web Scraping with Python.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good reference book containing pre-canned routines for accessing and manipulating a MySQL database. It is a good starting point for making routines to generate reports or validate data.

One other book on my list: MySQL Stored Procedure Programming is a good companion read to this one, as it shows the particulars of how to write logic on the server side. The code in the Cookbook can be used on the server side with ease. The other book also has more advice on how to optimize MySQL code when it does not have satisfactory performance.

[Adrian · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little bland... ba-dump-bump-bing. It had some interesting ideas for monitoring server status programatically, views for summary tables, and gathering stats/logs with triggers. When I do more of those things in detail, I may glance at certain parts again. Available online at Safari Books. [Skimmed w/some reading]

[Vaughn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ha ha, just kidding. But seriously, I am reading this, slowly, for cause, which is the only reason why anyone would...

Update: It did the trick. Quick access to many little tricks that would have taken too much time to think up myself. Sweet. Recommended!

[Yuan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the structure! It provides you options to go through all the MySql “recipes” quickly and dive into details!
Used the book for repairing technical test interview. Will go through the details to enhance understanding for sure.

[kunKUN herHER · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sekarang in progress apply it to my world... heheh

[Ibnu Triyono · Rating 4 out of 5]

wonderful book, Always looking here if i ever get problem with Mysql