MySQL Crash Course by Rick Silva

MySQL Crash Course

A Hands-on Introduction to Database Development

Rick Silva

No Starch Press · Print & ebook · May 23, 2023

With databases lurking in the background of every website, knowing how to manage them with MySQL is a no-brainer.

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Who it’s for
Build MySQL skills through SQL queries, database design, and projects involving weather, elections, and salary data.
Themes
Relational database development, SQL queries and database management, MySQL data storage systems
Pacing
Fast

About this book

With databases lurking in the background of every website, knowing how to manage them with MySQL is a no-brainer. This practical, hands-on introduction teaches readers all they need to know. MySQL Crash Course is a fast-paced, no-nonsense introduction to relational database development. It’s filled withpractical examples and expert advice that will have you up and running quickly.

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You’ll learn the basics of SQL, how to create a database, craft SQL queries to extract data, and work with events,procedures, and functions. You’ll see how to add constraints to tables to enforce rules about permitted data and useindexes to accelerate data retrieval. You’ll even explore how to call MySQL from PHP, Python, and Java. Three final projects will show you how to build a weather database from scratch, use triggers to prevent errors in anelection database, and use views to protect sensitive data in a salary database. You’ll also learn how to: - Query database tables for specific information, order the results, comment SQL code, and deal with null values - Define table columns to hold strings, integers, and dates, and determine what data types to use - Join multiple database tables as well as use temporary tables, common table expressions, derived tables, andsubqueries - Add, change, and remove data from tables, create views based on specific queries, write reusable stored routines, and automate and schedule events The perfect quick-start resource for database developers, MySQL Crash Course will arm you with the tools you needto build and manage fast, powerful, and secure MySQL-based data storage systems.

MySQL in Practice

Build MySQL skills through SQL queries, database design, and projects involving weather, elections, and salary data.

Come here for

  • SQL basics, table creation, queries, constraints, and indexes
  • Three projects: weather, election, and salary databases

Expect

  • Examples with events, procedures, functions, and views
  • Connecting MySQL with PHP, Python, and Java

Where it sits

Database Administration82%
SQL & Databases66%
Programming Basics24%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Database Administration
  • SQL & Databases
  • Web Programming
Authors
Rick Silva
Publisher
No Starch Press
Published
May 23, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Relational database development · SQL queries and database management · MySQL data storage systems
Reading lane
Database Administration