The Most Complete and Practical Guide to MySQL Version 5’s Powerful SQL Dialect
MySQL version 5 offers a SQL dialect with immense power. In SQL for MySQL Developers, Rick F. van der Lans helps you master this version ofSQL and take advantage of its full potential. Using case study examplesand hands-on exercises, van der Lans illuminates every key concept,technique, and statement–including advanced features that make iteasier to create even the most complex statements and programs.
Drawing on decades of experience as an SQL standards team member and enterprise consultant, he reveals exactly why MySQL’s dialect works as it does–and how to get the most out of it. You’ll gain powerful insight into everything from basic queries to stored procedures, transactions to data security.
Whether you’re a programmer, Web developer, analyst, DBA, or database user, this book can take you from “apprentice” to true SQL expert. If you’ve used SQL in older versions of MySQL, you’ll become dramatically more effective–and if you’re migrating from other database platforms, you’ll gain practical mastery fast.
Coverage includes
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Writing queries, including joins, functions, and subqueries
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Updating data
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Creating tables, views, and other database objects
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Specifying keys and other integrity constraints
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Improving efficiency with indexes
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Enforcing security via passwords and privileges
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Embedding SQL statements within PHP programs
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Building stored procedures and triggers
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Using transactions, locking, rollback, and isolation levels
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Utilizing MySQL’s catalog
All of the book’s sample programs are available for download from www.r20.nl.
About the Author
Rick F. van der Lans is author of the classic Introduction to SQL, the definitive SQL guide that database developers have relied on for more than 20 years. He is a consultant, author, and lecturer specializing in database technology, development tools, data warehousing, and XML. As managing director of the Netherlands-based R20/Consultancy, he has advised many large companies on defining their IT architectures. He chairs the European Meta Data Conference, and writes columns for several magazines.
Contents
About the Author
Preface
PART I Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to MySQL
CHAPTER 2 The Tennis Club Sample Database
CHAPTER 3 Installing the Software
CHAPTER 4 SQL in a Nutshell
PART II Querying and Updating Data
CHAPTER 5 SELECT Statement: Common Elements
CHAPTER 6 SELECT Statements, Table Expressions, and Subqueries
CHAPTER 7 SELECT Statement:The FROM Clause
CHAPTER 8 SELECT Statement: The WHERE Clause
CHAPTER 9 SELECT Statement: SELECT Clause and Aggregation Functions
CHAPTER 10 SELECT Statement: The GROUP BY Clause
CHAPTER 11 SELECT Statement: The HAVING Clause
CHAPTER 12 SELECT Statement: The ORDER BY Clause
CHAPTER 13 SELECT Statement: The LIMIT Clause
CHAPTER 14 Combining Table Expressions
CHAPTER 15 The User Variable and the SET Statement
CHAPTER 16 The HANDLER Statement
CHAPTER 17 Updating Tables
CHAPTER 18 Loading and Unloading Data
CHAPTER 19 Working with XML Documents
PART III Creating Database Objects
CHAPTER 20 Creating Tables
CHAPTER 21 Specifying Integrity Constraints
CHAPTER 22 Character Sets and Collations
CHAPTER 23 The ENUM and SET Types
CHAPTER 24 Changing and Dropping Tables
CHAPTER 25 Using Indexes
CHAPTER 26 Views
CHAPTER 27 Creating Databases
CHAPTER 28 Users and Data Security
CHAPTER 29 Statements for Table Maintenance
CHAPTER 30 The SHOW, DESCRIBE, and HELP Statements
PART IV Procedural Database Objects
CHAPTER 31 Stored Procedures
CHAPTER 32 Stored Functions
CHAPTER 33 Triggers
CHAPTER 34 Events
PART V Programming with SQL
CHAPTER 35 MySQL and PHP
CHAPTER 36 Dynamic SQL with Prepared Statement
CHAPTER 37 Transactions and Multiuser Usage
APPENDIX A Syntax of SQL
APPENDIX B Scalar Functions
APPENDIX C System Variables
APPENDIX D Bibliography
Index
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