To help programmers capitalize on valuable MySQL tips, Apress has published Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization: From Novice to Professional.
According to the authors, “all too many developers—even seasoned ones—often end up throwing away MySQL’s speed and other advantages due to poorly designed, inefficient databases. In many cases, they create extra work for their application (as well as themselves) due to poor choices throughout the scope of the database creation and through the way they perform operations to retrieve their data.â€
Russell and Stephens want to help every developer optimize his database, and have written the book around four general themes: fundamentals, design and performance issues, the effective use of MySQL with applications, and preparing for forthcoming MySQL releases. The authors offer keen insight regarding query optimization, table indexes, operators, indexes, normalization, and joins. Considerable focus is given to minimizing redundancy and streamlining configuration and networking issues. The third section ensures compatibility and correct configurations. Finally, there is a discussion of preparing for and transitioning to MySQL versions 4.1 and 5.
Highlights of Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization:
*Provides a thorough grounding in datatype, table type, and normalization to help designers create more compact and efficient databases
*Includes an overview of API’s for using MySQL with the most common Open Source programming languages, including Perl, Python, PHP 4 and PHP 5
*Introduces the latest features in MySQL 4.1 and 5 to help developers prepare their upgrade path
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Apress Authors: The Expert’s Voice(tm)
Jon Stephens has contributed as an author to seven previous books on Web development and related technologies, including Usable Shopping Carts, Professional PHP Web Services, Professional JavaScript (Second Edition), and Professional PHP 4 Web Development Solutions, and has served as a technical reviewer of a dozen or so more on a number of development topics, including PHP, MySQL, XML, JavaScript, and Visual Basic. His work has also appeared in International PHP magazine. Stephens was also one of the original developers of phpUDDI, a PHP Web Services library that has since been incorporated into PEAR as PEAR::UDDI. Originally from the USA, Jon now resides in Brisbane, Australia.
Chad Russell is currently a contract software developer for staffing industry software leader LiquidMedium, LLC and founder of Russell Information Technologies, Inc. (RIT), an enterprise software startup. Chad has worked on numerous enterprise-level projects over the past 5 years, primarily developing and integrating PHP and MySQL-based applications. He is currently busy with RIT developing enterprise-level, cross-platform software solutions and providing IT consulting. Chad, who resides in Jacksonville, Florida, is very active in his church where he has been a member for 23 years. His hobbies include music (playing bass guitar), writing, fishing, hunting, and programming.
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Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization: From Novice to Professional
Chad Russell and Jon Stephens
Published October 2004 * ISBN: 1-59059-332-4 * $44.99 US * 520 pages“
