Source Code Path to Programming MySQL

This book is prepared for the beginners to help them understand the basics-to-advanced concepts related to MySQL languages. Before you start doing practice with various types of examples given in this book, it is assumed that you are already aware about what a database is and what is a computer programming language.MySQL is a fast, easy-to-use RDBMS being used for many small and big businesses. MySQL is developed, marketed and supported by MySQL AB, which is a Swedish company. MySQL is becoming so popular because of many good reasons --MySQL is released under an open-source license. So you have nothing to pay to use it.-MySQL is a very powerful program in its own right. It handles a large subset of the functionality of the most expensive and powerful database packages.-MySQL uses a standard form of the well-known SQL data language.-MySQL works on many operating systems and with many languages including PHP, PERL, C, C++, JAVA, etc.-MySQL works very quickly and works well even with large data sets.-MySQL is very friendly to PHP, the most appreciated language for web development.-MySQL supports large databases, up to 50 million rows or more in a table. The default file size limit for a table is 4GB, but you can increase this (if your operating system can handle it) to a theoretical limit of 8 million terabytes (TB).-MySQL is customizable. The open-source GPL license allows programmers to modify the MySQL software to fit their own specific environments.