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MySQL Phrasebook. Essential Code and Commands
Authors: Greant Z., Newman Ch.
Published year: 2003
Pages: 7-10/130

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Introduction

If MySQL is a foreign land, MySQL Phrasebook is a concise guide to successfully navigating its broad streets , hectic bazaars, and dark alleys. Whether you're a tourist, a regular visitor, or even a local day-tripping to an unknown locale, this Phrasebook will help you find your way.

MySQL Phrasebook is not a definitive guide to all aspects of MySQL. Instead, it provides examples of how to accomplish some of the most common tasks in MySQL. This core of practical knowledge is supported with

Tips for enhancing daily use
Examples of the concepts being discussed
Terse references to essential MySQL tools and syntax
References to more details and resources on MySQL

Omissions: What This Book Doesn't Cover

The Phrasebook aims to be compact, rather than comprehensive. As such, a few topics have been omitted:

Installation or configuration of MySQL This book assumes that your MySQL installation is already up and running.
MaxDB or MySQL Cluster Although much of the content in MySQL Phrasebook applies to these database engines, this book does not specifically describe their implementation or use.
Detailed coverage of features and functions This book is not a complete reference for MySQL and only provides the most essential information on major features and functions.
Advanced topics Advanced topics, such as debugging server crashes, tuning replication, and so on, are not discussed.

Conventions Used in This Book

This book uses several conventions with regard to using the command line that are important to understand.

Default Assumptions

If code is listed without a prompt, it is assumed to be SQL and can be run in any MySQL client.

shell>

The shell> prompt indicates that the text following the prompt should be entered in your system's shell (Unix) or command window (Windows).

mysql>

The mysql> prompt indicates that the text following the prompt should be entered in the mysql command-line client.

Whether entering commands at a shell prompt or within the MySQL command-line client, only enter the text that, in the book, follows the prompt. Do not enter the prompt itself.