Paperback: 1224 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 4 book (September 8, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672329387
ISBN-13: 978-0672329388
Amazon.com Review
The astonishing wish of celebration of a mass books about databases is that they have been mostly created by authors with rarely orderly minds. Paul DuBois as good as his editors during New Riders have fabricated MySQL with a distinctness as good as plainness that inspires certainty in a theme matter: a (nearly) openly redistributable SQL-interpreting database client/server essentially geared for Unix systems though confirmed for Windows platforms as well. What isn’t “free” about MySQL (the application) is a server’s blurb use; all clients as good as noncommercial server have make use of of have been free. DuBois’s book isn’t giveaway either, though a list cost is medium in light of a worth as good as a worth of a namesake.
The volume is well orderly in to twelve chapters as good as 10 appendices as good as contains a obvious list of essence as good as a extensive 50-page index. It is peppered with references to a online HTML support that comes with a source as good as binary distributions (which have been accessible as good as easy to implement in fast rpm as good as connect releases.)
The initial third of MySQL is an glorious direction apparatus for database newbies; a second third is a minute anxiety for MySQL developers; as good as a final third consists of obviously annotated appendices, together with C, Perl (but not Python), as good as PHP interfaces.
Perhaps as an denote of a usual will of a developers of MySQL, DuBois does not apart Windows 95/98/NT pattern or growth specifics from a categorical discussions. Platform-independent pattern is a goal, not a reality, as good as users will have to rest upon newsgroups as good as mailing lists for details. Moreover, confidence issues have been addressed in a small eighteen pages, a vast partial of that is clinging to customary Unix record as good as network-access permissions. Next to zero is referred to about invulnerability opposite usual hacking strategies, a have make use of of of secure bombard interfaces, or entrance encryption.
Although it is scarcely 800 pages in length, DuBois’s book is thankfully not encyclopedic. It is a profitable précis of a MySQL database, as good as a easy-to-skim demeanour as good as feel will have it an glorious crop for database experts who wish to know what is as good as is not probable inside of MySQL, a application. –Peter Leopold –This content refers to an out of imitation or taken book of this title.
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