Paul DuBois 

MySQL’s popularity has brought a flood of questions about how to solve specific problems, and that’s where this cookbook is essential. When you need quick solutions or techniques, this handy resource provides scores of short, focused pieces of code, hundreds of worked-out examples, and clear, concise explanations for programmers who don’t have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch.

Ideal for beginners and professional database and web developers, this updated third edition covers powerful features in MySQL 5.6 (and some in 5.7). The book focuses on programming APIs in Python, PHP, Java, Perl, and Ruby. With more than 200+ recipes, you’ll learn how to:

Use the mysql client and write MySQL-based programs
Create, populate, and select data from tables
Store, retrieve, and manipulate strings
Work with dates and times
Sort query results and generate summaries
Use stored routines, triggers, and scheduled events
Import, export, validate, and reformat data
Perform transactions and work with statistics
Process web input, and generate web content from query results
Use MySQL-based web session management
Provide security and server administration