Reviews for Teach Yourself Mysql in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself in 21 Days)

1. Beginner guide to learning MySQL

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2004

   I originally brought the teach yourself MySQL in 24hours. This was good enough to get me started, and interested in using MySQL, but lacked enough detail. This book is the one i should have brought to start off with, in the first couple of chapters it explains databases for beginners really well. It is a must for anyone looking at learnign about databases whether Access or MySQL.

2. An Excellent Overview of MySQL

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, June 12th, 2003

   The book is aimed at the beginner/intermediate level, which I think is about right. Readers at both levels would benefit significantly from this well written and easily read volume.

   Each chapter gives you a ‘kick start’ in that aspect of MySQL starting at a basic level and progressing to a stage where you have gained very useful practical knowledge.
   The chapters on Querying Data for example take you to a point where you (as an intermediate user) could do most everyday queries.

   This is achieved by using straightforward examples with carefully graded and well explained steps. I never felt too pushed nor felt I was being patronised – quite an achievement.

   What I particularly liked were the chapters on interfacing with the real world.
   The chapter on PHP does not pretend to be a primer on PHP but does introduce the few functions in PHP which allow you to write to and query a MySQL database, retrieve the results and present them to the rest of your PHP code – just what a PHP coder needs from a book on MySQL. This is repeated for those who need to interface with C and PERL.

   I would unreservedly recommend this book to anyone starting out in MySQL.