MySQL Cookbook, 3rd Edition

MySQL Cookbook: Solutions for Database Developers and Administrators

MySQL’s popularity has brought a flood of questions about how to solve specific problems, and that’s where this cookbook is essential. 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 solve MySQL problems from scratch.

Ideal for beginners and professional database and web developers, this updated third edition covers powerful features in MySQL 5.6 (and some in 5.7). The book focuses on programming APIs in Python, PHP, Java, Perl, and Ruby. With more than 200+ recipes, you’ll learn how to:

• Use the mysql client and write MySQL-based programs
• Create, populate, and select data from tables
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate strings
• Work with dates and times
• Sort query results and generate summaries
• Use stored routines, triggers, and scheduled events
• Import, export, validate, and reformat data
• Perform transactions and work with statistics
• Process web input, and generate web content from query results
• Use MySQL-based web session management
• Provide security and server administration

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Using the mysql Client Program
Chapter 2. Writing MySQL-Based Programs
Chapter 3. Selecting Data from Tables
Chapter 4. Table Management
Chapter 5. Working with Strings
Chapter 6. Working with Dates and Times
Chapter 7. Sorting Query Results
Chapter 8. Generating Summaries
Chapter 9. Using Stored Routines, Triggers, and Scheduled Events
Chapter 10. Working with Metadata
Chapter 11. Importing and Exporting Data
Chapter 12. Validating and Reformatting Data
Chapter 13. Generating and Using Sequences
Chapter 14. Using Joins and Subqueries
Chapter 15. Statistical Techniques
Chapter 16. Handling Duplicates
Chapter 17. Performing Transactions
Chapter 18. Introduction to MySQL on the Web
Chapter 19. Generating Web Content from Query Results
Chapter 20. Processing Web Input with MySQL
Chapter 21. Using MySQL-Based Web Session Management
Chapter 22. Server Administration
Chapter 23. Security