MySQL

This is a short guide for everyone on how to structure your data and set-up your MySQL database tables efficiently and easily.

These tutorials are step-by-step guides for everyone who's ready to learn about the database software most commonly used for storing information behind some of today's most popular websites and online applications.

This book teaches you how to work with MySQL - a popular relational database management system. You will learn how to download and install MySQL on your Windows or Linux system. You will learn how to access MySQL through the command line or GUI, how to create a database, how to query a database, sort results, and much more. We will also guide you through some more advanced MySQL topics, such as MySQL functions, aliases, keys, and such.

MySQL's popularity has brought a flood of questions about how to solve specific problems, and that's where this MySQL Notes for Professionals 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.

This book written to provide clear and concise explanation of topics for programmers both starting to learn the MySQL programming as well as those diving in more complex topics. Most examples are linked to online playground that allows you to change the code and re-run it.

Get a comprehensive overview on how to set up and design an effective database with MySQL. This thoroughly updated edition covers MySQL's latest version, including its most important aspects.

Before the arrival of MySQL, implementing a database was typically a complex and expensive task involving the purchase, installation and maintenance of a proprietary database management system from a vendor such as Oracle or IBM. In contrast, MySQL provides a free, open source database management system that is easy to install, implement and maintain. In addition, MySQL is fast, extremely reliable and widely deployed by many companies and organizations throughout the world.

This book has examples from two databases that you can download and install in your local MySQL instance. You can practice by copying the code snippets from the chapters and running them in your local environment. In order for this book to be most effective, you must have MySQL installed locally on your machine and have also installed MySQL Workbench.