Name: MySQL
ISBN: 9780672329388

MySQL

In the second edition of MySQL Paul DuBois provides an updated, comprehensive guide to one of the most popular relational database systems. MySQL is the most popular open source database server in the world, with more than 2 million installations and customers including Yahoo!, MP3.com, Motorola, and NASA. MySQL 4.0, now generally available, is a long-awaited update to the database management system that has many new features, including a new table definition file format, enhanced replication, and more functions for a full text search. Instead of giving readers merely an overview of MySQL 4.0, Dubois continues to include the most sought-after answers to the questions he hears most often from the community.

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cutlerSep 2019

Most Perl web development was done with Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm in the late 90s. HTML::Mason was Perl's answer to PHP but it relied on mod_perl which most hosting companies were not prepared to let you have on the cheap. You could do CGI.pm procedural style or OO style with $obj->method() calls similar to PHP. "MySQL and Perl for the Web" by Dubois was a pretty good web primer at the time based on CGI.pm. This and "Programming Perl" got me started after I became intrigued by regular expressions which led to a deep interest in Perl. It's easy to forget that Perl was VERY cool back in the early 2000s. Reading "Programming Perl" for me was like reading great literature. Larry Wall the linguist really comes through strongly in the book.

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lhnnSep 2011

Because I spent $60 on an awesome MySQL reference guide and tutorial.

http://www.amazon.com/MySQL-4th-Paul-DuBois/dp/0672329387/re...

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cutlerFeb 2022

Same here. Learned CGI.pm and read the Perl & MySQL book by Dubois as well as most of the O'Reilly Perl collection. Then I was off to the races. Built an app with CGI::Application which ran a client's business for over a decade without many hiccups. Programming Perl by Larry Wall and Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl are still some of my favourite tech books.

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