MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems available, powering everything from Internet powerhouses to individual corporate databases to simple end-user applications, and everything in between. This book will teach you all you need to know to be immediately productive with the latest version of MySQL. By working through 30 highly focused hands-on lessons, your MySQL Crash Course will be both easier and more effective than you'd have thought possible.

Learn How To

• Retrieve and Sort Data
• Filter Data Using Comparisons, Regular Expressions, Full Text Search, and Much More
• Join Relational Data
• Create and Alter Tables
• Insert, Update, and Delete Data
• Leverage the Power of Stored Procedures and Triggers
• Use Views and Cursors
• Manage Transactional Processing
• Create User Accounts and Manage Security via Access Control

Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Director of Education Initiatives and has more than three decades of experience in the computer industry—in product development, support, training, and product marketing. He is the author of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (as well as spinoff titles like this one and versions on SQL Server T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, and MariaDB), Learning Regular Expressions, and Captain Code, which teaches Python to younger coders (and those young at heart), Java, Windows, and more. He has extensive experience in database design and development, has implemented databases for several highly successful commercial software programs and websites, and is a frequent lecturer and columnist on application development and Internet technologies. Ben lives in Oak Park, Michigan, with his wife, Dr. Marcy Forta, and their children. He welcomes your email at [email protected] and invites you to visit his website at http://forta.com.