Rating: 
Summary: Almost too good.
Review: My only complaint about this excellent book is that it is too up-to-date (almost an impossibility in the computer world, but it's true). This book covers a ton of stuff about the latest development release of MySQL, 3.23, but the recommended (stable) release is 3.22 - and there aren't any workarounds listed in the book if you don't have the latest version (and hence the latest tools and commands at your disposal). Me being paranoid about my data, I installed the stable release, and now this book is worth a lot less to me unless I upgrade. But if you're brave (or insane) enough to run a developer's release, then this book will become your new best friend.
Rating: 
Summary: To the point, and beyond
Review: This is by far the best MySQL resource (not just book) I have ever seen. Not only does it cover (at length) the MySQL SQL Server and accompanying clients, but also covers the PHP, PERL DBI, and C APIs. If you have EVER seen any type of database or are remotely familiar with database theory, you'll be developing your own MySQL *application* after the 385th page (which is the end of the API overviews... if you already know your API of choice, you'll be up-and-running after the second chapter).
Rating:
Summary: Intelligent and Authoritative
Review: Great book. I never give reviews, but if you want to learn MySQL, this book will do. It is written with no assumptions, clear, well organized, and factual (so many writers are sloppy with their facts and examples - but not here). I wish this guy would write a book on perl! You will not be disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: Best Book i ever read about MySQL
Review: I definetly recommend this book to beginners, i knew nothing about MySQL before reading this book and now i know almost everything i need to know. Very good editing and full of examples, covers nicely Perl and Phyton API's. Only thing that i would change about this book, its that i would put "Administration" part as a first part of the book not the last one. And only thing thats missing is Java API examples. It would be definetly nice to have some. But i still think that this book is one of the greatest.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent MySQL Tutorial and Reference
Review: This book is very well written and fills a gap among MySQL users for good printed documentation. As the book becomes more popular, it will expand the use of MySQL. My only suggestion would be that copies of the examples and any errata should be posted on a web site.
Rating:
Summary: Great MySQL reference with quality tutorials/examples
Review: This book answers a lot of questions left out by other MySQL books. If you are new at this, take the time and download the samp. databases and work through the examples. The PHP section is also very informative and helpful.MySQL + PHP + Apache + Linux = a combination that is very hard to beat! Learn it, love it, live it.
Rating:
Summary: An Excellent MySQL Book
Review: I agree with other reviewers: This is the excellent book on MySQL so far. The author explains and covers the MySQL clearly. If you're developing applications that use MySQL as a RDBMS, then you should go for this book. You won't be disappointed. The author also mainly covers C API, Perl API, and PHP API for manipulating MySQL. However, you could use Java or Java Servlets to do the same thing. And if you're using other RDBMS, then this book will provide you all necessary information on what MySQL could do and could not do before you decided to switch to MySQL. O'Reilly book "mSQL and MySQL" is also a good book on MySQL because it covers more APIs using with MySQL. Thus, it's quite useful for quick reference to MySQL and language APIs. I would like to give this book 5 stars, and the "mSQL and MySQL" 4 stars. I have both of them :)
Rating:
Summary: Excellent examples and wonderful reference, esp. Perl DBI
Review: This is a large book with a wonderful reference section on Perl DBI. The examples are excellent, especially the database browser, written using Perl DBI, CGI.pm, and mySQL. I've been toting this book, along with Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm book, back and forth to work because I find something new every day. The examples have extremely efficient and clean code and will give you great ideas for other uses.
Rating:
Summary: By Far the best MySQL Book Available
Review: This is an outstanding book on the MySQL database. Paul DuBois systematically takes the reader from a MySQL tutorial to advanced topics in MySQL database administration. Since I have installed the MySQL database I have barely put this book down. The chapters on the Perl DBI API and PHP are alone worth the price of the book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that is thinking about using MySQL. I already owned the O'Reilly book on MySQL and there is no comparison. The O'Reilly book barely scratches the surface of what MySQL is and what it can do as a relational database. I have since given the O'Reilly book away.
Rating:
Summary: Outstanding Book! A must have for MySQL Programmers.
Review: I've been programming SQL for five years, but I just recently started learning how to program on Linux. I needed to do database programming with a Web front end, so I chose Apache and MySQL, with Perl as the 'glue', by using the mod_perl module. This book showed me concisely what I needed to get up and running. It has many great examples, is easy to read, and had me writing code in about an hour. (Had to install the .rpm's..{grin} This book also includes a great chapter on the DBI interface for MySQL. I found this to be a good way to interface with MySQL from within the Perl modules, as it renders my code portable. I *highly* recommend this book to anybody trying to start out, like I did.
|
