1.6 What You Get

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1.6 What You Get

MySQL is a relational database management system. It includes not only a server process to manage databases, but also tools for accessing the databases and building applications against those databases. Among these tools are:

mysql

Executes SQL against MySQL, and can be used to execute SQL commands stored in a file

mysqlaccess

Manages users

mysqladmin

Enables you to manage the database server, including the creation and deletion of databases

mysqld

The actual MySQL server process

mysqldump

Dumps the definition and contents of a MySQL database or table to a file

mysqlhotcopy

Performs a hot backup of a MySQL database

mysqlimport

Imports data in different file formats into a MySQL table

mysqlshow

Shows information about the MySQL server and any objects (such as databases and tables) in that server

safe_mysqld or mysqld_safe

Safely starts up and manages the mysqld process on a Unix machine

Over the course of this book, we will go into the details of each of these tools. How you use these tools and this book will depend on how you want to use MySQL.

Are you a database administrator (DBA) responsible for the MySQL runtime environment? The chief concerns of a DBA are the installation, maintenance, security, and performance of MySQL. We tackle these issues in Part II.

Are you a database or application architect responsible for the design of solid database applications? We address the impact of MySQL on these issues in the first few chapters of Part III.

Are you a database application developer responsible for building applications that rely on a database? Database application developers need tools for providing their applications with data from MySQL. Most of Part III covers the various programming APIs that support application interaction with MySQL.

No matter who you are, you need to know the language spoken by MySQL: SQL. Like most database engines, MySQL supports the ANSI SQL2 standard with proprietary extensions. Chapter 3 is a comprehensive tutorial on MySQL's dialect of SQL. The details of the language are covered in Part IV.

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Managing and Using MySQL
Managing and Using MySQL (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0596002114
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 137

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