From Novice to Professional

Book Description:

  • Written for the budding web developer searching for a powerful, low-cost solution for building flexible, dynamic web sites.
  • Essentially three books in one: provides thorough introductions to the PHP language and the MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites.
  • Provides over 500 code examples, including real-world tasks such as creating an auto-login feature, sending HTML-formatted e-mail, testing password guessability, and uploading files via a web interface.
  • Updated for MySQL 5, includes new chapters introducing triggers, stored procedures, and views.

Book Description:

* Obtain a deep understanding of database design and modeling concepts.

* Implement a complete case study, from initial requirements gathering, right up to the point where it is up and running on SQL Server 2000.

* Design and build relational databases that will be more efficient and productive for your organization.

From Novice to Professional

Book Description:

After reading this book, you’ll be able to do a whole lot more. –Dirk Schreckmann, JavaRanch Sheriff and Journal Editor

Let Beginning JSP 2 be your guide as you begin using JSP. This comprehensive guide starts by steering you through your first JSP application. It reviews HTML, and provides you with a useful overview of JSP. You’ll then be ready to start learning one of the core techniques in JSP: pulling data from a database and working with that data.

When you’ve mastered this technique, you’ll be ready to branch out powerfully into other JSP topics: variables, scope, flow control, and code reuse for productive time management. Finally, the book shows you how you can use JSP with XML and gives you a taste of some advanced topics, including using Struts and the Model View Controller.

This book’s step-by-step examples explain the techniques behind the code. The authors include realistic scenarios wherever possible to build your knowledge and confidence in JSP. After reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to enter the web development and Java development industries. All you need to begin this journey is a basic understanding of HTML and Java.

From Novice to Professional

Book Description:

* Shows how to take advantage of MySQL’s built-in functions, minimizing the need to process data once it’s been retrieved from the database.

* Demonstrates how to write and use advanced and complex queries to cut down on (middleware) application logic, including nested sub-queries and virtual tables (added since MySQL 4.1).

* Points out database design do’s and don’ts, including many real-world examples of bad database designs and how the databases were subsequently improved.

* Includes a review of MySQL fundamentals and essential theory, such as naming conventions and connections, for quick reference purposes.

With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (Learning PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, CSS & HTML5)

Book Description:

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. In this update to this popular hands-on guide, you’ll tackle dynamic web programming with the latest versions of today’s core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, and key jQuery libraries.

Web designers will learn how to use these technologies together and pick up valuable web programming practices along the way—including how to optimize websites for mobile devices. At the end of the book, you’ll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site suitable for both desktop and mobile browsers.

  • Explore MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
  • Use the MySQLi extension, PHP’s improved MySQL interface
  • Create dynamic PHP web pages that tailor themselves to the user
  • Manage cookies and sessions and maintain a high level of security
  • Enhance the JavaScript language with jQuery and jQuery mobile libraries
  • Use Ajax calls for background browser-server communication
  • Style your web pages by acquiring CSS2 and CSS3 skills
  • Implement HTML5 features, including geolocation, audio, video, and the canvas element
  • Reformat your websites into mobile web apps

Book Description:

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The Essential Guide to Scaling Your Business Solution

Written by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, with coauthor Chris Schneider, Effective MySQL: Replication Techniques in Depth describes what is needed to understand and implement MySQL replicationto build scalable solutions. This book includes detailed syntax examples to demonstrate the features, options, and limitations of native MySQL replication. Providing an evaluation of various new replication features andadditional third-party product implementations, this Oracle Press guide helps to ensure your MySQL environment can support the various high-availability needs of your business.

  • Master the strengths and limitations of native asynchronous replication in a MySQL topology
  • Identify the important features to improve replication for growing business requirements
  • Recognize the key business factors to determine your optimal highavailability needs
  • Understand the benefits of using MySQL replication for failover scenarios
  • Identify the key configuration variables and SQL commands affecting master/ slave replication
  • Learn about the advancements in replication techniques provided by new products, including Tungsten Replicator and Galera
  • Optimize your replication management with various utilities and toolkits

Find additional detailed information and presentations at EffectiveMySQL.com.

A Simplified Approach to Developing Database-Driven Websites

Book Description:

Build interactive, database-driven websites with PHP 7, MySQL 8, and MariaDB. The focus of this book is on getting you up and running as quickly as possible with real-world applications. In the first two chapters, you will set up your development and testing environment, and then build your first PHP and MariaDB or MySQL database-driven website. You will then increase its sophistication, security, and functionality throughout the course of the book.

The PHP required is taught in context within each project so you can quickly learn how PHP integrates with MariaDB and MySQL to create powerful database-driven websites.

Each project is fully illustrated, so you will see clearly what you are building as you create your own database-driven website. You will build a form for registering users, and then build an interface so that an administrator can view and administer the user database. You will create a message board for users and a method for emailing them. You will also learn the best practices for ensuring that your website databases are secure. Later chapters describe how to create a product catalog, and a simple e-commerce site. You will also discover how to migrate a database to a remote host. The final chapter will demonstrate the advantages of migrating to Oracle’s MySQL 8. You will be shown step by step migration directions along with a demonstration of the tools available in SQL Workbench.

Because you are building the interactive pages yourself, you will know exactly how MySQL, MariaDB, and PHP all work together, and you will be able to add database interactivity to your own websites with ease.

What You Will Learn

  • Build a secure database-driven website using PHP 7, MySQL 8, and MariaDB
  • Create a product catalog
  • Write a message board
  • Move towards e-commerce
  • Employ security and validation measures
  • Migrate to Oracle’s MySQL 8 Server platform
Who This Book Is For

Web developers with HTML, CSS and a limited Bootstrap experience. Readers need little to no prior experience with PHP and MySQL.

SQL and NoSQL Data Storage Using MySQL for Python Programmers

Book Description:

Move data back and forth between database and application. The must-have knowledge in this book helps programmers learn how to use the official driver, MySQL Connector/Python, by which Python programs communicate with the MySQL database.

This book takes you from the initial installation of the connector through basic query execution, then through more advanced topics, error handing, and troubleshooting. The book covers both the traditional API as well as the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI is part of MySQL 8.0 and is an API that can be used with connectors for several programming languages and is used from the command-line interface known as MySQL Shell. You will learn to use the connector by working through code examples and following a discussion of how the API calls work.

By the end of the book, you will be able to use MySQL as the back-end storage for your Python programs, and you’ll even have the option of choosing between SQL and NoSQL interfaces.

What You’ll Learn

  • Install MySQL Connector/Python
  • Connect to MySQL and configure database access
  • Execute SQL and NoSQL queries from your Python program
  • Trap errors and troubleshoot problems
  • Store data from different languages using MySQL’s character set support
  • Work in the X DevAPI that underlies all of MySQL’s language connectors
Who This Book Is For

Developers familiar with Python who are looking at using MySQL as the back-end database. No prior knowledge of Connector/Python is assumed, but readers should be familiar with databases and the Python programming language.

Book Description:

Learn the new Document Store feature of MySQL 8 and build applications around a mix of the best features from SQL and NoSQL database paradigms. Don’t allow yourself to be forced into one paradigm or the other, but combine both approaches by using the Document Store.

MySQL 8 was designed from the beginning to bridge the gap between NoSQL and SQL. Oracle recognizes that many solutions need the capabilities of both. More specifically, developers need to store objects as loose collections of schema-less documents, but those same developers also need the ability to run structured queries on their data. With MySQL 8, you can do both!

Introducing the MySQL 8 Document Store presents new tools and features that make creating a hybrid database solution far easier than ever before. This book covers the vitally important MySQL Document Store, the new X Protocol for developing applications, and a new client shell called the MySQL Shell. Also covered are supporting technologies and concepts such as JSON, schema-less documents, and more. The book gives insight into how features work and how to apply them to get the most out of your MySQL experience. The book covers topics such as:

  • The headline feature in MySQL 8
  • MySQL’s answer to NoSQL
  • New APIs and client protocols
What You’ll Learn

  • Create NoSQL-style applications by using the Document Store
  • Mix the NoSQL and SQL approaches by using each to its best advantage in a hybrid solution
  • Work with the new X Protocol for application connectivity in MySQL 8
  • Master the new X Developer Application Programming Interfaces
  • Combine SQL and JSON in the same database and application
  • Migrate existing applications to MySQL Document Store
Who This Book Is For

Developers and database professionals wanting to learn about the most profound paradigm-changing features of the MySQL 8 Document Store

Collecting More Data from the Modern Web

Book Description:

If programming is magic then web scraping is surely a form of wizardry. By writing a simple automated program, you can query web servers, request data, and parse it to extract the information you need. The expanded edition of this practical book not only introduces you web scraping, but also serves as a comprehensive guide to scraping almost every type of data from the modern web.

Part I focuses on web scraping mechanics: using Python to request information from a web server, performing basic handling of the server’s response, and interacting with sites in an automated fashion. Part II explores a variety of more specific tools and applications to fit any web scraping scenario you’re likely to encounter.

  • Parse complicated HTML pages
  • Develop crawlers with the Scrapy framework
  • Learn methods to store data you scrape
  • Read and extract data from documents
  • Clean and normalize badly formatted data
  • Read and write natural languages
  • Crawl through forms and logins
  • Scrape JavaScript and crawl through APIs
  • Use and write image-to-text software
  • Avoid scraping traps and bot blockers
  • Use scrapers to test your website

Book Description:

Speak the languages that power the web

With more high-paying web development jobs opening every day, people with coding and web/app building skills are having no problems finding employment. If you’re a would-be developer looking to gain the know-how to build the interfaces, databases, and other features that run modern websites, web apps, and mobile apps, look no further. Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies is your go-to interpreter for speaking the languages that handle those tasks.

Get started with a refresher on the rules of coding before diving into the languages that build interfaces, add interactivity to the web, or store and deliver data to sites. When you’re ready, jump into guidance on how to put it all together to build a site or create an app.

  • Get the lowdown on coding basics
  • Review HTML and CSS
  • Make sense of JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, and MySQL
  • Create code for web and mobile apps

There’s a whole world of opportunity out there for developers—and this fast-track boot camp is here to help you acquire the skills you need to take your career to new heights!

Book Description:

Explore the engine that drives the internet

It takes a powerful suite of technologies to drive the most-visited websites in the world. PHP, mySQL, JavaScript, and other web-building languages serve as the foundation for application development and programming projects at all levels of the web.

Dig into this all-in-one book to get a grasp on these in-demand skills, and figure out how to apply them to become a professional web builder. You’ll get valuable information from seven handy books covering the pieces of web programming, HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, creating object-oriented programs, and using PHP frameworks.

  • Helps you grasp the technologies that power web applications
  • Covers PHP version 7.2
  • Includes coverage of the latest updates in web development
  • Perfect for developers to use to solve problems

This book is ideal for the inexperienced programmer interested in adding these skills to their toolbox. New coders who’ve made it through an online course or boot camp will also find great value in how this book builds on what you already know.

Book Description:

Create and run a real-time, highly-available, and high-redundancy version of the world’s most popular open-source database, MySQL. You will understand the advantages and disadvantages of the MySQL NDB Cluster solution, and when MySQL NDB Cluster is the right choice.

Pro MySQL NDB Cluster walks you through the full lifecycle of a MySQL Cluster installation: starting with the installation and initial configuration, moving through online configuration and schema changes, and completing with online upgrades. Along the way, you will learn to monitor your cluster, make decisions about schema design, implement geographic replication, troubleshoot and optimize performance, and much more.

This book covers the many programming APIs that are supported by MySQL NDB Cluster. There’s also robust coverage of connecting to MySQL NDB Cluster from Java, SQL, memcached, and even from C++. From any of these languages, you’ll be able to connect and store and retrieve data as your applications demand. The book:

  • Covers MySQL NDB Cluster concepts and architecture
  • Takes you through the MySQL NDB Cluster lifecycle from installation to upgrades
  • Guides you through DBA and Developer decisions when working with MySQL NDB Cluster

What You’ll Learn

    • Understand the shared-nothing architecture behind MySQL NDB Cluster
    • Plan, install, and configure a MySQL NDB Cluster environment
    • Perform everyday tasks such as backing up, restoring, and upgrading

Develop applications from Java, memcached, C++, and SQL

  • Troubleshoot and resolve application performance problems
  • Master enterprise-level features such the MySQL NDB Cluster Manager

Who This Book Is For

Database administrators and developers who are looking into deploying MySQL NDB Cluster, or who already have a cluster in production and want to increase their knowledge and ability to handle routine administrative tasks and troubleshooting. The book also is for those developers wanting to employ MySQL NDB Cluster as their chosen storage engine from Java, memcached, and C++ applications.

Book Description:

Walk away from old-fashioned and cumbersome query approaches and answer your business intelligence questions through simple and powerful queries built on common table expressions (CTEs) and window functions. These new features in MariaDB and MySQL help you to write queries without having to wade through a quagmire of brittle self-joins and other crazy techniques from the past. Your queries will generate correct results, be more readable and less brittle in the face of unexpected data, and you’ll be able to adapt them quickly in the face of changing business requirements.

MariaDB and MySQL Common Table Expressions and Window Functions Revealed introduces and explains CTEs and window functions, newly available in MariaDB 10.2 and MySQL 8.0, and helps you understand why and how every MariaDB and MySQL database programmer should learn and apply these features in their daily work. CTEs and especially window functions enable easy solutions to many query challenges that in prior releases have been difficult and sometimes impossible to surmount. Mastering these features opens the door to query solutions that are more robust, execute faster, and are easier to maintain over time than prior solutions using older techniques. The book:
  • Takes you step-by-step through the workings of common table expressions and window functions
  • Provides easy-to-follow examples of the new syntax
  • Helps you answer business questions faster and easier than ever

What You’ll Learn

  • Answer business questions using simple queries that don’t break in the face of unexpected data
  • Avoid writing queries that are a difficult-to-maintain quagmire of self-joins and nested subqueries
  • Recognize situations that call for window functions, and learn when to use these features
  • Reduce the need for performance-robbing self-joins
  • Simplify and speed the execution of analytical queries
  • Create queries that finish in seconds instead of hours

Who This Book Is For

Database administrators and application developers who want to quickly get up to speed on important features in MariaDB and MySQL for writing business intelligence queries. Any developer writing SQL against MariaDB and MySQL databases will benefit tremendously from the knowledge and techniques this book provides.

Book Description:

Learn PHP development best practices, such as version control, development environment virtualization, and coding standards. You’ll also discover the most useful PHP web frameworks, including the new Laravel, symfony2, and micro-frameworks. As you do so, you’ll learn how to use them to write the most productive PHP code possible.

PHP Development Tool Essentials complements Jason Gilmore’s best-selling Beginning PHP and MySQL. This book will further expose you to the many different methodologies, tools, and concepts that professional web developers are using more and more each day.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to use version control with PHP
  • How to set up virtualized development environments
  • How to maintain PHP coding standards
  • How to manage dependencies
  • How to leverage the best PHP frameworks

Book Description:

This book is an upgrade to phpMyAdmin Version 2.8. Written by a member of the development team, this book serves as a comprehensive guide to helping you unlock the full potential of phpMyAdmin 3.8 phpMyAdmin Providing a powerful graphical interface for managing MySQL, phpMyAdmin is one of the most popular open source applications. While most MySQL developers use routine features of phpMyAdmin every day, few are aware of the power and potential of its advanced features. This book builds a solid understanding of the core capabilities of phpMyAdmin before walking you through every facet of this legendary tool. MySQL Used by millions of developers, MySQL is the most popular open source database, supporting numerous large dynamic websites and applications. MySQL has acquired this wide popularity by virtue of its open source nature, performance, reliability, robustness, and support for various platforms. However, this popularity has also been helped by the existence of phpMyAdmin, the industry standard administration tool that makes database management easy for both the experienced developer and their novice. The powerful graphical interface that it provides to MySQL has made phpMyAdmin an indispensable tool for MySQL and web developers. Every phpMyAdmin user can benefit from unlocking the full potential of this powerful application. Whether you are an experienced developer, system administrator, web designer or new to MySQL and phpMyAdmin, this book will show you how to increase your productivity and control when working with your databases. You will learn how to: – Administer MySQL users and privileges, and get statistics about MySQL servers and databases – Manage databases, table data and structures, and indexes – Use bookmarks and metadata – Generate multiple SQL queries – Generate better documentation of evolving table structures Along the way you will build a more detailed understanding of SQL and how it works in MySQL. As an application developer you’ll learn how to use phpMyAdmin to: – Effectively perform day-to-day database and table management. – Create efficient database tables and relational structures – Document your evolving data structure easily As a MySQL server administrator, you will benefit from the in-depth and practical coverage of: – Using phpMyAdmin to manage users and privileges – Getting server and database statistics All database users will be able to expand and refine their knowledge of SQL in a MySQL context by using phpMyAdmin to track SQL execution and results. The prior edition of this book was written for version 2.6. Most of the changes to phpMyAdmin in version 3.8 are in the user interface and not the underlying functionality. This book brings the screen shots and user instructions into line with the new interface. If as a reader you are happy with the new interface already you don’t need to upgrade to this new edition of the book. The book begins with a comprehensive tutorial of phpMyAdmin that systematically explains and demonstrates the potential of this tool. It then goes on to show the less well known and generally under-used features and capabilities of phpMyAdmin in depth. Whether you are an experienced developer, system administrator, web designer or new to MySQL, phpMyAdmin is a must have tool for anyone who needs to manage MySQL databases and tables. This book is a must read for every serious phpMyAdmin user who would like to use this outstanding application to its full power.

Data management for sensors and connected devices

Book Description:

This book introduces the problems facing Internet of Things developers and explores current technologies and techniques to help you manage, mine, and make sense of the data being collected through the use of the world’s most popular database on the Internet – MySQL.

The IoT is poised to change how we interact with and perceive the world around us, and the possibilities are nearly boundless. As more and more connected devices generate data, we will need to solve the problem of how to collect, store, and make sense of IoT data by leveraging the power of database systems.

The book begins with an introduction of the MySQL database system and storage of sensor data. Detailed instructions and examples are provided to show how to add database nodes to IoT solutions including how to leverage MySQL high availability, including examples of how to protect data from node outages using advanced features of MySQL.

The book closes with a comparison of raw and transformed data showing how transformed data can improve understandability and help you cut through a clutter of superfluous data toward the goal of mining nuggets of useful knowledge.

In this book, you’ll learn to:

  • Understand the crisis of vast volumes of data from connected devices
  • Transform data to improve reporting and reduce storage volume
  • Store and aggregate your IoT data across multiple database servers
  • Build localized, low-cost MySQL database servers using small and inexpensive computers
  • Connect Arduino boards and other devices directly to MySQL database servers
  • Build high availability MySQL solutions among low-power computing devices

Book Description:

“If you ever wanted to learn to use MySQL, write SQL queries, create database elements, then this is the book to pick up.” (JavaRanch.com)

“I was amazed at how much information was packed into this book.”

“As a developer with almost 10 years of MySQL experience, I still picked up a lot of new detail on things I thought I knew.”

“I found this to be a great introductory book to MySQL.”

“Has already proven to be helpful in solving several challenges I’ve encountered on my current MySQL project.”

That’s a sampling of what developers said about the 1st Edition of Murach’s MySQL.

Now, this 2nd Edition has been updated and improved throughout. As a result, it’s easier than ever to use for learning MySQL from scratch, for switching to MySQL from another flavor of SQL (like MS SQL Server or Oracle), or for quickly looking up the forgotten details that are so essential as you develop database applications.

Section 1 introduces you to relational databases and SQL, shows you how to use the graphical MySQL Workbench to work with a MySQL database, and teaches you to code SQL queries to retrieve, add, update, and delete data in a MySQL database. Section 2 goes deeper into querying, showing you how to work with summary queries, subqueries, data types, and functions. Section 3 shows you how to design a MySQL database using an EER model, implement the design, and create views. Section 4 shows how to create stored procedures that provide functionality similar to procedural programming languages like PHP, Java, C++, C#, and VB. And Section 5 introduces you to database administration tasks like securing and backing up database data.

Whether you start from the beginning or jump in anywhere, it’s a great guide for MySQL users at any level.

A Problem-Solution Approach

Book Description:

PHP and MySQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach supplies you with complete code for all of the common coding problems you are likely to face when using PHP and MySQL together in your day-to-day web application development. This invaluable guide includes over 200 recipes and covers numerous topics.What you hold in your hands is the answer to all your PHP 5 needs.

First, this book is a source of instant solutions, including countless pieces of useful code that you can just copy and paste into your own applications, giving you answers fast and saving you hours of coding time. Second, this book is a useful reference to the most important aspects of the latest PHP scripting language, including the vital functions you know and love from previous versions of PHP, as well as the functions introduced in latest PHP 5.x.

Furthermore, this book explains the PHP functionality in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQL database extension. PHP and MySQL Recipes will be a useful and welcome companion throughout your career as a web developer, keeping you on the cutting edge of PHP development, ahead of the competition, and giving you all the answers you need, when you need them.

Book Description:

Learn everything about the dynamic power of PHP and MySQL in real-world applications with the practical information and step-by-step instructions in PHP and MySQL: Create – Modify – Reuse . The authors, experts in tune with common web development tasks, will guide you through several projects that are complete, tested, and ready to be implemented, so that you can understand by doing. Understand all aspects of design, such as portability, design flow, and integration, and become proficient at solving problems that developers face in everyday circumstances.