MySql Stored Procedure Programming

by Guy Harrison, Steven Feuerstein

The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a huge milestone -- one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption of the already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious about building the web-based database applications of the future, you need to get up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work -- and how to build them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of stored procedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer can afford to do without. In the decade since MySQL burst on the scene, it has become the dominant open source database, with capabilities and performance rivaling those of commercial RDBMS offerings like Oracle and SQL Server. Along with Linux and PHP, MySQL is at the heart of millions of applications. And now, with support for stored procedures, functions, and triggers in MySQL 5.0, MySQL offers the programming power needed for true enterprise use. MySQL's new procedural language has a straightforward syntax, making it easy to write simple programs. But it's not so easy to write secure, easily maintained, high-performance, and bug-free programs. Few in the MySQL world have substantial experience yet with stored procedures, but Guy Harrison and Steven Feuerstein have decades of combined expertise. In MySQL Stored Procedure Programming , they put that hard-won experience to good use. Packed with code examples and covering everything from language basics to application building to advanced tuning and best practices, this highly readable book is the one-stop guide to MySQL development. It consists of four major A companion web site contains many thousands of lines of code, that you can put to use immediately. Guy Harrison is Chief Architect of Database Solutions at Quest Software and a frequent speaker and writer on MySQL topics. Steven Feuerstein is the author of Oracle PL/SQL Programming , the classic reference for Oracle stored programming for more than ten years. Both have decades of experience as database developers, and between them they have authored a dozen books.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Nonfiction, Management, Language, Engineering, Computers

638 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

There is more than one author with this name

Reviews

[Pete Aven · Rating 4 out of 5]

SPs in MySql can hurt, big-time. This book is actually very helpful in that it describes query/table/schema tuning techniques that're useful regardless of whether or not your sql is in an SP. It's also very useful in that it lets you know all that can be done with SPs, Functions, and Triggers in MySql. What it doesn't tell you: depending on your SP query, server config, and how often you call the SP, you may not want to implement that MySql feature as you'll blow out your server memory. So it's exciting to see what can be done in MySql as of version 5, and this book brings those features to life. But make sure you test everything as there were definitely some bugs in the 5.0 release that, depending on your db, won't let you implement everything you read about here.

[Atul Kumar · Rating 3 out of 5]

if you are looking for mysql 5.7 like JSON datatype then this book does not cover it. Else the content is fine.

[Paschalis]

elibrary

[Azizu Rahman · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful approach for Stored Procedure implementation on MySQL 5.0