I am going to the book store tonight and am going to look at book to help me learn mysql better any suggestions.
Thanks
coopster
8:14 pm on Mar 21, 2006 (gmt 0)
I would focus more on SQL rather than just MySQL. Is that really what you want to learn?
JerryOdom
8:26 pm on Mar 21, 2006 (gmt 0)
I use the MySQL Cookbook from O'Reilly and associates. I also have MySQL by a guy named Paul Dubois that comes in handy.
Light_Gear
9:11 pm on Mar 21, 2006 (gmt 0)
coopster I am not sure I have been using mysql because I use php. What is the difference between the 2
coopster
9:53 pm on Mar 21, 2006 (gmt 0)
SQL (Structured Query Language) is the prepared statements. For example,
SELECT lastname, firstname FROM mytable ORDER BY lastname, firstname;
... is an SQL statement. MySQL is a company that has developed a relational database management system (RDBMS). IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and many others also have RDBMS. The idea behind SQL was that there would be a standard language that folks could use to access data in the databases, no matter which RDBMS they were using. Therefore, if I wrote a program I could use that program against a MySQL database as well as using it against any of the others. That was the theory anyway. Hopefully this gives you a little bit of an idea in the difference.
