Describes the features and functions of MySQL 5.0 along with short code pieces and programming examples.

DESCRIPTION MySQL Cookbook – MySQL is a popular open-source database, and SQL is the top language for querying, creating, and managing data in databases. Developers and administrators widely use it for general and specific applications. MySQL powers business IT applications like CRM and ERP, APIs, web and e-commerce platforms, database management, data analytics, and increasingly, big data and data science projects. It starts with MySQL Workbench for beginners and moves to MySQL Shell for advanced scripting. Learn data redundancy, disaster recovery, and server connections in various languages. Core functions like SELECT, JOINs, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE are explained. Explore string, date, and time functions, sorting, stored procedures, triggers, and data manipulation. Finally, it covers user management, backups, performance, and security best practices. By the end of this book, you will be adept at interacting with MySQL databases, crafting efficient queries, and confidently managing your data for optimal performance and security. KEY FEATURES ● Gain confidence and skills to solve data problems with hands-on MySQL exercises. ● Learn practical MySQL skills by solving common database issues. ● Connect to servers, issue queries, retrieve data, and manage MySQL tasks. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Connect to a server, issue queries, and retrieve results from MySQL Server. ● Store, retrieve, and manipulate strings and work with dates and times. ● Sort query results and generate aggregations. ● Use stored routines, triggers, and scheduled events. ● Perform basic MySQL administration tasks and monitoring fundamentals. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR Whether you are a developer, an administrator, a faculty member teaching databases, or a student aiming to enhance your skills, this book provides valuable insights and hands-on knowledge to tackle database-related questions and problems effectively. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Using the MySQL Client Program 2. Using MySQL Shell 3. Using MySQL Replication 4. Writing MySQL-based Programs 5. Querying Data from Tables: Tables Management 6. Working with Strings 7. Working with Dates and Times 8. Sorting Query Results 9. Using Stored Routines, Triggers, and Scheduled Events 10. Importing and Exporting Data 11. Validating and Reformatting Data 12. Generating and Using Sequences 13. Working with JSON 14. Server Administration 15. Monitoring the Database Server and Security

For MySQL, the price of popularity comes with a flood of questions from users on how to solve specific data-related issues. That's where this cookbook comes in. When you need quick solutions or techniques, this handy resource provides scores of short, focused pieces of code, hundreds of worked-out examples, and clear, concise explanations for programmers who don't have the time (or expertise) to resolve MySQL problems from scratch. In this updated fourth edition, authors Sveta Smirnova and Alkin Tezuysal provide more than 200 recipes that cover powerful features in both MySQL 5.7 and 8.0. Beginners as well as professional database and web developers will dive into topics such as MySQL Shell, MySQL replication, and working with JSON. You'll learn how to: Connect to a server, issue queries, and retrieve results Retrieve data from the MySQL Server Store, retrieve, and manipulate strings Work with dates and times Sort query results and generate summaries Assess the characteristics of a dataset Write stored functions and procedures Use stored routines, triggers, and scheduled events Perform basic MySQL administration tasks Understand MySQL monitoring fundamentals

Over 60 simple but incredibly effective recipes focusing on different methods of achieving high availability for MySQL database.

Gain instant solutions, including countless pieces of useful code that you can copy and paste into your own applications, giving you answers fast and saving you hours of coding time. You can also use this book as a reference to the most important aspects of the latest PHP scripting language, including the vital functions you know and love from previous versions of PHP, as well as the functions introduced in PHP 7. PHP and MySQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach supplies you with complete code for all of the common coding problems you are likely to face when using PHP and MySQL together in your day-to-day web application development. This invaluable guide includes over 200 recipes and covers numerous topics. What you hold in your hands is the answer to all your PHP 7 needs. Furthermore, this book explains the PHP functionality in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQL database extension. PHP and MySQL Recipes will be a useful and welcome companion throughout your career as a web developer, keeping you on the cutting edge of PHP development, ahead of the competition, and giving you all the answers you need, when you need them. What You'll Learn Work with arrays, dates and times, strings, files and directories, and dynamic imaging Write regular expressions in PHP Use the variables and functions found in PHP Who This Book Is For Experienced PHP and MySQL programmers and web developers who have at least some PHP and MySQL programming experience.

This collection of more than 300 ready-to-use recipes for often-needed solutions is the ultimate time saver for Web developers.

MySQL, and the APIs used for interacting with it, are so rich and complex that it's hard to remember all the possible nuances. MySQL in a Nutshell provides the syntax with explanations that are easy to understand, along with examples to help you obtain a comprehensive view and a layout that makes retrieving information quick and simple. After introductory material on installing and formulating queries to MySQL, the book presents a reference listing of MySQL's features. Contents include : SQL statements, with the clauses of the more complicated statements broken into groups of related functionality for easier reading ; functions provided by MySQL ; arguments and configuration options for the mysqld server ; arguments for the terminal client and a number of MySQL-related utilities, both within and outside the core distribution ; API functions for Perl, PHP, and C. All function and API listings are provided with a wealth of examples based on realistic applications, to show how the features can benefit you and make for simpler, faster, more productive queries. The information in this book can make every MySQL user more productive-novice and veteran alike.

A guide for MySQL administrators covers such topics as benchmarking, indexes, the stages of processing a query, hardware configuations, copying data to multiple servers, and preventing hardware failure.

Provides instructions on installing MySQL and building applications with a variety of programming languages.