MySQL Bible

by Steve Suehring

Book Overview

Organization: The book is divided into five parts: Getting Starated with MySQL and Relational Databases; Understanding SQL Through MySQL; MySQL Administration; MySQL Developer Guide; and Advanced and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764549324
• ISBN13: 9780764549328
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Execellent book... layout could be improoved.

Very good book. I'll recomend it to anyone learning MySQL.Some examples did not work in my server but after contacting the author we/he resolved the problem. Problem was related to new release of PHP. The CD-ROM does not include the examples so be ready to do some typing.The pictures in the book are hard to see.Book content *****Book layout ***CD-ROM **Author's support *****

Excellent book

I found this book to be quite helpful. Luckily, the author assumes you have some knowledge of MySQL. Content is excellent. I'd recommend it as an addition to a programming library.

Book layout could be improved

This is an excellent book. Buy it.However, the entire book uses actual screen shots to demonstrate the bulk of all the command line examples. These screen shots are huge blocks of black background containing tiny, faint, thin grey lettering. Think about it - thin grey letters on a black background.Apparently, the author used a Windows box running Putty to SSH into a Linux box running the actual MySQL database server. The screen shots are of actual Putty/SSH sessions. Although you can see some of the books pages online, none of them contains a single example of what I'm referring to. The book is chock full of them.I don't care how good your vision is, reading the contents of these screen shots is needlessly difficult. I used a large magnifying glass and I have 20/20 vision. If the author had supplied the publisher with text equivalents, AND if the publisher had formatted those examples properly, it would be a much better read.It still gets 5 stars for content. The Publisher gets 0 stars for allowing this to happen.I've also read Koffler's book and of course, DuBois's excellent tome. If I had it to do over again, I'd still purchase all three.Anyone with vision problems, take note.

Aptly Named

While I have generally not had a very high opinion of this series, "MySQL Bible with CDROM" is one of precious few exceptions to this rule, a magnum opus of MySQL magnificence in which the arcane knowledge which Mr Suehring has acquired (almost certainly through pacts with dark forces, if his grim personage is any guide to character) is imparted sagely to those would would but listen.For this is no mere facsimile of electronic documentation, pressed hastily onto the blank sheet solely for the purpose of accumulating wealth. Within this voluminous tome lies not only much material of a referential and informative nature, but also many gems of practical experience, blood squeezed from the stone of bleak reality for the enlightenment of those who seek knowledge within the radius of Mr Suehring's expertise.This guide is aimed neither at the neophyte nor at those who have already trodden this twisted path. The book's benevolence is such that it imparts knowledge to the inexperienced and the puissant alike, leaving each the better for it. It begins, as all journeys in the realms of the database must, with the core truths of SQL, then elaborates on these to educate in all matters of MySQL administration, both trivial and complex, from the first tiny steps of running mysqladmin to the eldritch secrets of replication.This is not a book for those who blindly favor one belief over another. Its words speak equally to those who have chosen the cult of X, the freedoms of open source, or the darkness that leads to Redmond. It speaks of both security and of safety, instructing the reader in the finer points of the recovery of data that might otherwise be lost forever, while aiding in the protection of that data from those who harbor it ill-will.The characters of this book are not the heroes and villains of mere fiction, but the embodiment of concepts, such as the search for perfection that is performance tuning, and the interface between the divine and mortal, where the data must be shepherded onto the reader's browser by the ignoble but stalwart personages of PHP and Perl.Nor does this fount of knowledge restrict its wisdom to that which may be freely downloaded, as the winds of commerce that guide NuSphere's packaging of MySQL blow also into the delicate pages that hold these fine words.Finally, to illustrate that his knowledge extends to realms familiar to the less-gifted, Mr Suehring casts the lightening radiance of his vision over nothing less than an example e-commerce application, such as might be found useful by a student, a beginner, a humble shopkeeper, or even one who has been forced by ill-circumstance to make marketing his or her chosen path through life.I entitled this summary of Mr Suehring's book "Aptly Named". I stand by this description, as there is indeed a CDROM inside the cover of the book and it does indeed discuss the topic of MySQL. I also have no reason to doubt that Mr Steve Suehring is the author of this work, difficult though it

Well written - all inclusive reference

I had been relying on a combination of the online HTML ref docs and Michaeal Kofler's "MySQL" book for the last six months. I think this book is far better than Kofler's in terms of it's thorough coverage of MySQL and integration with other systems and programming languages. I also like this book's intuitive style and timely informational tidbits. Very Highly Recommended.