SQL for MySQL Developers A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference

The Most Complete and Practical Guide to MySQL Version 5rs"s Powerful SQL Dialect MySQL version 5 offers a SQL dialect with immense power. InSQL for MySQL Developers, Rick F. van der Lans helps you master this version ofSQL and take advantage of its full potential. Using case study examplesand hands-on exercises, van der Lans illuminates every key concept,technique, and statementincluding advanced features that make iteasier to create even the most complex statements and programs. Drawing on decades of experience as an SQL standards team member and enterprise consultant, he reveals exactly why MySQLrs"s dialect works as it doesand how to get the most out of it. Yours"ll gain powerful insight into everything from basic queries to stored procedures, transactions to data security. Whether yours"re a programmer, Web developer, analyst, DBA, or database user, this book can take you from "apprentice" to true SQL expert. If yours"ve used SQL in older versions of MySQL, yours"ll become dramatically more effectiveand if yours"re migrating from other database platforms, yours"ll gain practical masteryfast. Coverage includes Writing queries, including joins, functions, and subqueries Updating data Creating tables, views, and other database objects Specifying keys and other integrity constraints Improving efficiency with indexes Enforcing security via passwords and privileges Embedding SQL statements within PHP programs Building stored procedures and triggers Using transactions, locking, rollback, and isolation levels Utilizing MySQLrs"s catalog All of the bookrs"s sample programs are available for download from www.r20.nl. About the Author RickF. van der Lansis author of the classicIntroduction to SQL, the definitive SQL guide that database developers have relied on for more than 20 years. He is a consultant, author, and lecturer specializing in database technology, development tools, data warehousing, and XML. As managing director of the Netherlands-based R20/Consultancy, he has advised many large companies on defining their IT architectures. He chairs the European Meta Data Conference, and writes columns for several magazines. Contents About the Author xix Preface xx PART I Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1 Introduction to MySQL 3 CHAPTER 2 The Tennis Club Sample Database 29 CHAPTER 3 Installing the Software 37 CHAPTER 4 SQL in a Nutshell 41 PART II Querying and Updating Data 71 CHAPTER 5 SELECT Statement: Common Elements 73 CHAPTER 6 SELECT Statements, Table Expressions, and Subqueries 145