MySQL Books

Hundreds of books and publications related to MySQL are in circulation that can help you get the most of out MySQL. These books cover topic including database design, web development, administration, MaxDB, and MySQL certification.

Recent Publications

• Title: "Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization:
  From Novice to Professional (Apress, 2004)"
  Authors: Jon Stephens & Chad Russell
  ISBN: 1-59059-332-4
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  Synopsis:
  
  Discusses effective design of databases through the use of appropriate datatypes and normalisation; development of fast and robust MySQL applications by leveraging indexes, joins, and SQL functions and operators. Throughout the book, emphasis is laid on minimising storage requirements and data redundancy, and on maximising the use of SQL logic over application logic. While using MySQL 4.0/4.1 as its point of reference, the book also looks at some of the key features that will be available in MySQL 5 and how these will help DBAs and developers get more out of MySQL in future.
  
  
  TOC:
  
  Chapter 1 - MySQL Basics
  Chapter 2 - MySQL Column and Table Types
  Chapter 3 - Keys, Indexes, Normalization
  Chapter 4 - Operators, Branching, Functions
  Chapter 5 - Joins, Temporary Tables, Transactions
  Chapter 6 - Finding the Bottlenecks
  Chapter 7 - MySQL Programming (PHP 4, PHP 5, Perl, Python)
  Chapter 8 - Looking Ahead (MySQL 5; Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers)
  
• MySQL Tutorial, Luke Welling and Laura Thomson
  • Sample Chapter: Chapter 10: Using Transactions with InnoDB Tables
• MySQL Certification Study Guide, Paul DuBois, Stefan Hinz, and Carsten Pedersen
  • Reviews, sample chapter and more information
• MySQL Language Reference, MySQL AB
• MySQL Administrator's Guide, MySQL AB
• High Performance MySQL, Jeremy Zawodny and Derek J. Balling
  • Sample Chapter: Chapter 6: Server Performance Tuning
  • Sample Chapter: Chapter 7: Replication
• MySQL™: The Complete Reference, Vikram Vaswani
• MySQL Enterprise Solutions, Alexander "Sasha" Pachev
• MySQL and Java Developer's Guide, Mark Matthews, Jim Cole, Joseph D. Gradecki