MySQL Essentials

MySQL Essentials is an online book designed to provide everything a user needs to know to install, build, maintain and secure MySQL based databases.

• About MySQL Essentials
• Database Basics
• MySQL Database Architecture
• The mysql Command-Line Tool
• The MySQL Administrator Tool
• The MySQL Query Browser
• Creating New Databases and Tables with MySQL Administrator
• Creating Databases and Tables Using SQL Commands
• Updating and Deleting MySQL Tables
• Inserting Data into a MySQL Database
• Updating and Deleting MySQL Data
• Retrieving Data From a MySQL Database
• Sorting Data Retrieved from a MySQL Database
• Using WHERE to Filter MySQL Data
• Advanced MySQL Data Filtering - AND, OR, NOT and IN
• MySQL Wildcard Filtering using LIKE
• MySQL Regular Expression Searches
• Joining Tables in MySQL
• An Introduction to MySQL Views
• MySQL Calculations and Concatenations
• Manipulating Text in MySQL
• MySQL Mathematical Functions
• Working with Dates and Times in MySQL
• MySQL Data Aggregation Functions
• MySQL Users and Security