The DuBois book is a good start: http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-book/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Paulson [mailto:jpaulson@stripped]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:56 AM
> To: mysql@stripped
> Subject: Newbie needs info!
>
> 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
>
>
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