Hi everyone,
Long time reader, first time poster.
I've been using MySQL for some years now and never really did any
advance stuff in it. I mainly do updates, deletes, and selects. My
selects aren't even that complex as I don't have a very good
understanding of the join syntax and exactly what it does. I was
wondering a few things. First of all what is a good book for
beginners/intermediate level people? I'd really like to learn more
complex query structure and how to optimize a database as a whole as
well as individual tables in the database (example what's the
difference between a primary key and just a regular key in a table?).
I'm also looking for something that can explain stored procedures and
why they are useful (I really don't have any clue about stored
procedures) as well as transactions, replication, and master/slave
databases. Finally, I'd like to figure out the difference between each
table type (MyISM and InnoDB etc).
Thanks for any help or advice!
jay
