MySQL Cookbook

MySQL’s popularity has brought a flood of questions about how to solve specific problems, and that’s where this cookbook 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


Ideal for beginners and professional database and web developers, this updated third edition covers powerful features in MySQL 5.6 (and some in 5.7). The book focuses on programming APIs in Python, PHP, Java, Perl, and Ruby. With more than 200+ recipes, you’ll learn how to


* Use the mysql client and write MySQL-based program

* Create, populate, and select data from table

* Store, retrieve, and manipulate string

* Work with dates and time

* Sort query results and generate summarie

* Use stored routines, triggers, and scheduled event

* Import, export, validate, and reformat dat

* Perform transactions and work with statistic

* Process web input, and generate web content from query result

* Use MySQL-based web session managemen

* Provide security and server administration