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MySQL Bible with CDROM |
Author: Steve Suehring
Published: 2002-06-15 |
List price: $49.99
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 Some good info, but ...
Unfortunately, time and development have passed this book by. It is for MySQL 4.0, which has been FAR surpassed by the newer 5.0 version.
As mentioned by some other reviewers, one of the main problems with the book is the illustrations. They are so dark as to be illegible. Not sure what the people that got the press proofs were thinking when they let that out the door.
The author does a reasonable job on certain areas (hey, can't be all bad if he has a dedication to Eddie Van Halen).
Might want to try the third edition of MySQL by Paul DuBois as a good reference book that is much more up-to-date.
 Hopelessly outdated
I have to disagree with many of the reviews of this book.
The MySQL Bible would benefit from more than a simple layout change. Since the advent of the win installer for ver. 4.1.6 gamma of MySQL, the first 5 chapters of this book become useless. There are few explicit example of code (especially regarding how to interact with mysqladmin) extracted from the impossible "dark grey on black" screen captures that are used.
As for the comment that some reviewers have made, that some of the codes provided (when they can be read) are inaccurate or ineffective, I would add only that I have yet to find a snippet of code in the book that actually works.
Maybe there is something usefull in this book, but I haven't found it yet... I only hope that this book has a major revision for 5.0, and that someone in the editorial dept. at Wiley actually looks at pages before they are published.
False advertising
Don't waste your money on this. The book and reviews claim to include binaries and source of MySQL database but the CD-ROM contains neither. Bogus.
Hardly a "bible"
I purchased this book with great anticipation of expanding my knowledge of mySQL and making great us of the section on perl. Overall, I'm very dissapointed. The book itself goes into great detail about certain things that need not such a vast description, yet only privide single examples for some important things.
The CD-ROM is useless. I was expacting it to have code from the book, whereas it's a collection of mySQL apps and programs that you can get free elswhere.
Having explored the perl chapter of the book in greatest detail, it provides inadequite examples with a lot of inneficient coding.
I give the book credit, however, for covering as much ground as it does, mySQL with perl, PHP and ODBC. Overall, however, not worth the money.
 Execellent book... layout could be improoved.
Very good book. I'll recomend it to anyone learning MySQL.Some examples did not work in my server but after contacting the author we/he resolved the problem. Problem was related to new release of PHP. The CD-ROM does not include the examples so be ready to do some typing. The pictures in the book are hard to see. Book content *****
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Author's support *****
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