The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a hugemilestone --
one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption ofthe
already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious
aboutbuilding the web-based database applications of the future, you
need toget up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work -- and how
tobuild them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of
storedprocedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer
canafford to do without.
In the decade since MySQL burst on the scene, it has become thedominant
open source database, with capabilities and performancerivaling those of
commercial RDBMS offerings like Oracle and SQLServer. Along with Linux
and PHP, MySQL is at the heart of millions ofapplications. And now, with
support for stored procedures, functions, and triggers in MySQL 5.0,
MySQL offers the programming power neededfor true enterprise use.
MySQL's new procedural language has a straightforward syntax, making
iteasy to write simple programs. But it's not so easy to write secure,
easily maintained, high-performance, and bug-free programs. Few in
theMySQL world have substantial experience yet with stored procedures,
butGuy Harrison and Steven Feuerstein have decades of combined
expertise.
In MySQL Stored Procedure Programming, they putthat hard-won
experience to good use. Packed with code examples and coveringeverything
from language basics to application building to advancedtuning and best
practices, this highly readable book is the one-stopguide to MySQL
development. It consists of four major sections:
- MySQL stored programming fundamentals -- tutorial, basicstatements,
SQL in stored programs, and error handling
- Building MySQL stored programs -- transaction handling, built-in
functions, stored functions, and triggers
- MySQL stored programs in applications -- using storedprograms with
PHP, Java, Perl, Python, and .NET (C# and VB.NET)
- Optimizing MySQL stored programs -- security, basic andadvanced SQL
tuning, optimizing stored program code, and programmingbest practices
A companion web site contains many thousands of lines of code, that
youcan put to use immediately.
Guy Harrison is Chief Architect of Database Solutions at Quest
Softwareand a frequent speaker and writer on MySQL topics. Steven
Feuerstein isthe author of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, the classic
reference for Oracle stored programming for more than ten years. Both
have decades of experience as database developers, and between them they
have authored a dozen books.
