Core MySQL: The Serious Developer's Guide

by Leon Atkinson

This book introduces the reader to the MySQL Open Source database system and focuses on programming in the SQL language that is at the core of MySQL. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130661902
• ISBN13: 9780130661906
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 721 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A former must-have for SQL developers

If you're stuck using MySQL 3.x, this is a great book for you. The material is dated, however, for those of us who are using more recent versions of MySQL. Users of more modern versions of MySQL should look to more recent publications that cover MySQL 5. On that, I do not have a recommendation at this point. I previously said this in my original review: I own O'Reilly's SQL in a Nutshell and Managing & Using MySQL and have a full printed copy of the MySQL reference. I found this book to be nothing short of impressive. As a MySQL user for a year, I feel confident doing what I need to do, but this book blew me away with how much more I had not yet explored. Definitely worth the money.

I keep this book next to the keyboard.....

As a MySQL newbie, I needed a review of SQL and found this book to be very helpful. It has a clear and concise approach to the subject of databases and MySQL. The commands were clearly explained and examples were easy to follow. I have this book on my desk and next to the keyboard most of the time. It is a well used reference book. Security wasn't explained until close to the end of the book. I had permission problems with MySQL on linux and had to use another book to resolve that problem.

Easy and quick to understand; needs real examples

It is very good at covering the "core" of MySQL and gives an introduction to relational databases in general (the relational model, SQL, normalization, etc.).My personal opinion is that Atkinson should have assumed the reader was already familiar with the relational model and spent more book space on MySQL. Atkinson's info on relational databases is decent but lacks depth and takes away space that could be used to give real examples of the uses of MySQL.I'm giving this book a five star because I feel the other reviewers were unfair.

MySQL and JavaBeans

.... Connecting from a different machine is covered just fine in the book. A simple matter of the URL and port 3306.The book was a great help in configuring MySQL in a J2EE environment. This is easily the best book out at this time. Looks like some other references are coming soon which may turn out to be better. However, as of this writing, I couldn't have succeeded with the JavaBean config without Core MySQL.