Now at over 5 million downloads and widely used at all levels, MySQL continues to grow in popularity. Readers are hungry for a concise, easily accessible tutorial on MySQL basics that allows them to get up and running quickly. While there are many MySQL books on the market, there are no up-to-date books that meet this need for the reader. Furthermore, sales of MySQL books clearly shows the need for a concise, handy tutorial versus the more bulky introductions to MySQL. Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes provides a no-fluff, just-the-answers guide to building and managing MySQL databases.
I got this having already waded into MySQL by reading things online. I was looking for extra things I had not already taught myself, and a quick reference when I forget how to do some basic things. It serves that purpose well. I have not had problems with out of date things or errors as another reviewer mentioned, but I am not a DBA by any means... I tend to just do simple things in SQL. I am more comfortable in code, so I do big manipulations of data outside the DB in Java or C++.
Easy read...very useful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I have read only half this book (the first half which is dedicated to beginners database work) and found it easy to read and useful. When I become advanced enough I will read the second half. It includes topics like the SQL off-limits words that you shouldn't use in your database naming fields - which is always helpful (Especially when you are like "I know this function should be working!" and it isn't because you've used something in that list - you won't spend hours trying to debug your code!) I will buy Sams Teach yourself books for other topics again.
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