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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585
EAN: 9780596100896
Edition: illustrated edition
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.
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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 majorsections:
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.
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This book clearly covers stored procedure programming well. Of course, it goes over basic syntax and provides examples, but it also goes much farther than that. This book discusses optimization of MySQL queries regardless of the use - in or out of sprocs. It also did a very nice job of discussing the use of cursors - the ability to iterate through the results of a query without being pelted with the entire result set all at once.
If you're developing on MySQL 5 or greater, and you're serious about letting the database handle things that make sense (i.e. denormalization, administration, and putting business logic into the database), this is an excellent resource.
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o Thorough coverage of
- o stored procedures
- o functions
- o triggers
- o cursors
o Explains stored procedure optimization very well
o Serves as stored procedure cookbook
o Excellent coverage of stored procedure best practices
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This is the first and only book about Mysql stored procedured and since it was written by the query tuning guru Guy Harrison, it also includes nice tips on query tuning. Highly recommended, just be forewarn that this is for advance Mysql developers or DBA only. Also, be aware that Mysql stored procedure as of release 5.0 and 5.1 won't buy you much performance since Mysql parse stored procedures scripts every time it run unlike other RDBMS like Oracle and MSSQL. If you want better performance, you should make use of prepared statements inside a stored procedure.
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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 book is dedicated to the stored programs domain and provides a lengthy treatment of the subject.
During the introduction, the authors provide a veritable laundry list of MySQL resources including many books and websites. The basic tools for creating stored programs in MySQL are visited and help set the groundwork for a 'read, type in the example and run it' feedback loop. Throughout the book, the examples are clear and easy to follow.
The introduction is followed by a brief ... Read More
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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 makes it much more time consuming for a newbie to actually run and digest the examples than it should.
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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 use various combinations of INPUT, OUTPUT and INPUT-OUTPUT parameters in addition to exception processing, etc. That would have been great but then, this isn't a PHP book. Too bad most PHP books seem to focus more on the basics of the language and don't delve into the weighty matters of real-world commercial application development.
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