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Summary: No Better Book on MySQL
Review: Although O'Reilly's "MySQL and mSQL" has a better introduction to relational databases, this book is far superior in terms of breadth, examples, and accuracy. When tasked to migrate a project on the Micro$oft platform to PHP/MySQL, this book and the PHP site were all I needed. Don't forget to download the errata and source code from New Riders. A good thick book that looks good too!
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Summary: Everything you need in one place
Review: MySQL is an excellent reference and how-to manual for the MySQL database. All information is presented in a logical manner and even obscure information can easily be located via an excellent index and table of contents. Sections on user management and administration were especially helpful as were the language specific sections on PHP, Perl, C, and more. When I work with MySQL this book is right there with me.
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Summary: The ONLY MySQL book you need
Review: I was new to MySQL when I purchased this book, and using only this book I was able to setup a *large* PHP/MySQL website with complex features in only a few short weeks. Paul DuBois very clearly explains everything, and I cannot say a bad thing about this book. This book is excellent for beginners, and as an somewhat experienced MySQL administrator and PHP programmer, I still use this book as a reference...many books say "for novice and advanced alike" but this is truly one of the books which can uphold that statement. I have a hard time with some technical manuals, but I'm not sure that I would classify this as a technical manual, its like the DuBois is giving me personal instructions. It never grows old, and is truly indispensible.
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Summary: Save Time - Buy this book
Review: I could have kicked myself when I found out how much time I wasted before I bought this book. You can quickly and easily find what you are looking for. It is very indepth if you want more then a quick answer. It is well-organized. It is thorough. Now if I could only find a PHP book that was written as well as this one!
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Summary: Not for the Windows Programmer
Review: Heavy emphasis on Unix (ok), Light emphasis on Windows (bummer),Book is somewhat scattered in thought. Good content though, and I suspect a second edition will clear up a lot. The 'PHP an dMySQL' book by Sams is scattered too. But it came with an outstanding PDF formatted manual that has saved my A**. Amazing that out of two books, I'm having to resort to a PDF. If someone could of just tutorialed getting the basics down for Windows users.
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Summary: -The- mySQL book
Review: This is -the- authoritative mySQL book out there. Clearly written, everything you need to know is in here, including detailed treatment of the C, PHP, and perl APIs (the reason I bought the book). -Highly- recommended to anyone working with mySQL.
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Summary: MySQL
Review: Having had some database experience I found the book to be very good at explaining the various facets of MySql in a simple and easy to understand manner. You can use the examples in the book to perform the various commands with ease. Well written.
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Summary: Bravo, Paul!
Review: First I got started with the mysql through the online documentation avilable at mysql's website, which is written and being maintained by Paul Dubois. After that I decided to buy the book, and I was very satisfied with my decision. Below I am listing several evaluative criterias that indeed make the book ( and the author, as well) the best choice available thus far: 1) Great for beginners: To understand how to keep a grade book, you don't need huge brains(I hope so). That's exactly what Paul starts his book with, and makes his way through to some RDBMS terminologies that you won't even notice. 2) From the simplest to more advanced... Such books make the learning for beginniners piece of cake, and for experienced ones a lof of fun. The book's focus is on couple of tables that you build in the first chapter, and keep manipulating throughout the book. Paul never forgets about those tables. Even in the Second section of the book (Using MySQL Programming Interfaces), he teaches you to write applications using C, Perl and PHP to manipulate them. Since you build them all together with Paul, you have more understanding of what you're doing. Of course, by the end of the book it gets advanced, which makes it the right choise for advanced programmers as well. 3) Great references Oh yes. Awesome appendixes. Listings of all the functions, keywords, syntaxes are available (in alphabetical order). Also seperate appendixes for Perl DBI API, C API and PHP API makes it even more useful 4) Easy language. This is deginitely important. Even though the books are in english, not all of them gurantee you comprehension. Sometimes you might find the lingo of the book of too high a level, or even vice versa. None of those are the cases with the MySQL book. Paul uses plain english and switches to RDBMS lingo whenever he thinks it is appropriate. 5) The book is definitely from an expert. You better don't doubt it! Since Paul is the one in charge of the official documentation, who else could tell you more about the subject? 6) Still got the gap? Let him fill it... Another thing that pleased was the fact, unlike other aUtHoRs, it is not hard to get hold of Paul in mysql mailing list. He is kind enough to answer the questions, and/or contribute to the discussions about the subject. If you are interested with learning MySql, I want you to buy the book, because there're no other books better than this one so far. Also, support for such authors is important.
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Summary: Fantastic Resource
Review: This is one fantastic book for those of you who work with MySQL or administer systems using it. It's not for those who really don't know any SQL whatsoever (you should look elsewhere if you want to learn SQL per se), but more for those people who already know the syntax and just need a reference on administering MySQL. It's been a great help to me. I highly recommend it....
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Summary: Nice book, too bad not nicely organized
Review: This is the best MySQL book you can find. I found it a very complete reference. Also the Query Optimization part is very useful. It also tells you what MySQL can do and what MySQL can not do, so you can make the right choice of database depends on your projects before you start to use MySQL. You can use this book even if you are a totally newbie to relational database. The only bad point from this book is, it is badly organized. They should make a simple chart for all simple commands, like delete table, change column type, rename column type, and stuff like that.
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