MySQL Complete Manual

Author: (USA) Vasani/V. / Xu Xiaoqing / Lu Xiaocun, etc.
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: As the current most popular open-source database, MySQL has almost swept the entire industry. The features of MySQL, such as cross-platform support, independent storage engines, advanced permission and security systems, query caching, full-text indexing and search, are the key to its success. This book is reviewed and approved by the MySQL database development team, and its authority is unquestionable. It covers knowledge in all aspects of MySQL installation, usage, management, and development, making it a comprehensive reference manual. MySQL is currently the most popular open-source database management system, with over 4 million installations worldwide. This book provides a detailed introduction to how to use the customizable MySQL database management system to support robust, reliable, and mission-critical applications. The book is divided into four parts and 21 chapters, explaining the characteristics of MySQL from different perspectives, including MySQL installation and configuration, creating and using databases and tables, data querying and operations, transaction processing, MySQL management and configuration, backup and recovery, performance optimization, and development interfaces of MySQL with C, Perl, and PHP. The book emphasizes comprehensiveness in its content, covering almost all topics related to MySQL, making it a complete MySQL reference manual. It is suitable for designers and programmers preparing to use MySQL for system development to study and reference, and also serves as a textbook for undergraduate and college-level software majors.