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PsychologyLarry Ullman has seemingly made a career out of his expertise in PHP and MySQL. And his expertise in both is unquestionable. Fortunately for those of us who wish to quickly grasp the essentials of these two technologies, Ullman is also an excellent teacher and writer. MySQL walks you gently through the beginner to early intermediate level of familiarity with the platform. It does not treat any aspect of MySQL in great...
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Learning MYSQL can be a little daunting for beginners because its open-source and you have to do some research in getting the right information sometimes. This book is aimed at the beginner who wants to get their feet wet with MYSQL and also how to use it with many of the more popular development platforms such as Java, Perl and PHP. It is easy to read through because of its column-based format with enough snapshots and visual...
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If you are new to SQL or MySQL, this is the book to get. Once you get past the newbie stage, then get Vaswani's MySQL Complete Reference. I really like Ullman's books. He does a very good job of explaining and walking you through the various parts with a minimum of fuss and distractions. This, as well as his other books on PHP are tutorial in nature rather than reference books, so the order of subjects is his. The book...
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Larry Ullman's Visual QuickStart Guide is top-notch. At the beginning of the summer, I knew nothing about MySQL. Now I am SELECT-ing, INSERT-ing, and doing all other sorts of MySQL like a pro, or at least like someone who understands what is going on. This book is divided into 3 major sections in my mind. The first 100 or so pages deal with installing MySQL, creating databases, and using SQL queries to do thing. The next...
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Another reviewer mentioned "bugs" in this book, i.e., commands in the book that don't work. as I understand it, one of the difficulties with open-source software is that in can be available in a number of different packages from a number of different distributors that all work in slightly different ways. Therefore, if you're not using exactly the same version of MySQL, it's not going to work exactly the same for you. Given...
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