Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585 EAN: 9780596100896 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596100892 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 636 Publication Date: March 28, 2006 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 33880 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a huge milestone -- one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption of the already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious about building the web-based database applications of the future, you need to get up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work -- and how to build them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of stored procedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer can afford to do without.
In the decade since MySQL burst on the scene, it has become the dominant open source database, with capabilities and performance rivaling those of commercial RDBMS offerings like Oracle and SQL Server. Along with Linux and PHP, MySQL is at the heart of millions of applications. And now, with support for stored procedures, functions, and triggers in MySQL 5.0, MySQL offers the programming power needed for true enterprise use.
MySQL's new procedural language has a straightforward syntax, making it easy to write simple programs. But it's not so easy to write secure, easily maintained, high-performance, and bug-free programs. Few in the MySQL world have substantial experience yet with stored procedures, but Guy Harrison and Steven Feuerstein have decades of combined expertise.
In MySQL Stored Procedure Programming, they put that hard-won experience to good use. Packed with code examples and covering everything from language basics to application building to advanced tuning and best practices, this highly readable book is the one-stop guide to MySQL development. It consists of four major sections:
MySQL stored programming fundamentals -- tutorial, basic statements, SQL in stored programs, and error handling
Building MySQL stored programs -- transaction handling, built-in functions, stored functions, and triggers
MySQL stored programs in applications -- using stored programs with PHP, Java, Perl, Python, and .NET (C# and VB.NET)
Optimizing MySQL stored programs -- security, basic and advanced SQL tuning, optimizing stored program code, and programming best practices
A companion web site contains many thousands of lines of code, that you can put to use immediately.
Guy Harrison is Chief Architect of Database Solutions at Quest Software and a frequent speaker and writer on MySQL topics. Steven Feuerstein is the author of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, the classic reference for Oracle stored programming for more than ten years. Both have decades of experience as database developers, and between them they have authored a dozen books.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - MySQL Stored Procedures, In Depth
I have been working with MySQL for several years as a database back-end for Java, Ruby and C# programming projects. After upgrading to version 5, I have been meaning to look into MySQL's support for stored procedures.
The MySQL Stored Procedure Programming book was my first read on the subject and I found it quite useful. It covers not only stored procedures, but also functions and triggers, collectively called 'stored programs' in the book. While there are many books on MySQL, this ... Read More
Rating: - MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
The good: I found to book to be generally useful. The approach the book takes is good. Lots of examples are provided along with a good amount of explanation.
The not-so-good: There seem to be quality or editorial issues with some of the examples. When I run them through the query browser in MySQL version 5 I have problems with some of them. For example Example 2-7 calls another procedure new_salary, which doesn't seem to exist by that name in the book or on the website. This ... Read More
Rating: - Essential material when learning spp on MySQL
Being fairly new to MySQL (but not to programming) I needed to develop an application using PHP/OOP with MySQL and stored procedures. This book is pretty concise and got me going quickly. At the time, I searched the Amazon book offerings and also books on the shelf at Barnes & Noble. This book is the only one providing clear and concise material on the subject.
I do wish the coverage would have been more detailed using PHP data objects (PDO) in combination with stored procedures that ... Read More
Rating: - Good coverage of Stored routines, and more!
This book has an excellent coverage of the MySQL 5.0 stored routines (stored procedures, stored functions and triggers).
But it also provides with invaluable hints and guidelines for general MySQL practices.
The book starts with PART I: covering the syntax and rules for stored routines. This part is straightforward and a very fast read. The authors tend to repeat themselves on occasion, though only when relevant.
PART II looks more closely at the particular rules for stored ... Read More
Rating: - Highly recommended!
It walks you through writing, maintaining, and debugging stored procedures. It can be used as a reference and tutorial.
I found Part IV Optimizing Stored Programs particularly useful.
- MySQL Stored Procedures, In Depth
- MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
