Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 21 Days teaches you to design and implement your own open source database. Topics include: Designing and Creating your First Database, Normalizing your Data, Adding Tables, Columns, and Indexes, MySQL Data Types, Importing and Exporting Data, Locks and Keys, Building a MyODBC Interface, Building a Perl Interface, Letting MySQL Do the Work - Intrinsic Functions, MySQL Database Security, How MySQL Compares, Administering MySQL, Optimizing MySQL, and Troubleshooting MySQL.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1516546 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-03
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

From the Publisher
When You Only Have Time for the Answers!
Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 21 Days teaches you to design and implement your own open source database.

Topics include: Designing and Creating your First Database, Normalizing your Data, Adding Tables, Columns, and Indexes, MySQL Data Types, Importing and Exporting Data, Locks and Keys, Building a MyODBC Interface, Building a Perl Interface, Letting MySQL Do the Work - Intrinsic Functions, MySQL Database Security, How MySQL Compares, Administering MySQL, Optimizing MySQL, and Troubleshooting MySQL.

CD-ROM contains MySQL, freeware tools available for MySQL, the ODBC driver, sample programs used in the book, test data for use in the examples and other utilities.

From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 21 Days teaches you to design and implement your own open source database. Topics include: Designing and Creating your First Database, Normalizing your Data, Adding Tables, Columns, and Indexes, MySQL Data Types, Importing and Exporting Data, Locks and Keys, Building a MyODBC Interface, Building a Perl Interface, Letting MySQL Do the Work - Intrinsic Functions, MySQL Database Security, How MySQL Compares, Administering MySQL, Optimizing MySQL, and Troubleshooting MySQL.

About the Author

A long-time developer, Mark Maslakowski is co-owner of ForeFront Solutions specializing in development of 3-tier applications. He designed, developed and implemented an N-Tier Capital Budget application using Visual Basic, Microsoft Transaction Server and MySQL, and has created several internet and intranet sites employing MySQL databases.

Customer Reviews

Too many mistakes
I bought this book because I needed to learn how to use MySQL for my job, this book was little help. It is full of typos, which means wading through online resources to try and work out how to do things. Even the example files on the CD don't tie in with the exercises in the book. Avoid

Glad i also bought MySQL by Paul DuBois
As a newbie to mysql and having read the sams books in the past which were all very good, I am totally dissapointed with this book.

It does help a newbie to some extent but there are so many spelling mistakes and errors you are forever pulling your hair out trying to work out why its not working as it should be. I had to constantly refer to other books such as MySQL to work out if i was doing something wrong or the book was just wrong in 95% of the cases it was an error within the Book.

Packed full of typos and basic mistakes
While this book did get me going on MySQL, from the second chapter you have to wade through typos and basic errors. It means that you're doing half the work yourself.

Perhaps if you use a UNIX system you'll be fine, but then the Internet is packed full of help there too. But when you want to use MySQL on a Windows system, the Internet and this book are barely enough help. I scraped my way through it because it's at least reasonably complete, but don't think that you'll be following the author's examples from beginning to end.