MySQL in a Nutshell

Russell Dyer is a Perl programmer, MySQL developer, and web designer living and working on a consulting basis in New Orleans. He is also an adjunct instructor at a local college where he teaches Linux and other open source software. He welcomes reader responses to his articles.

Preface; 1. Introduction to MySQL; The Value of MySQL; The MySQL Package; Licensing; Mailing Lists; Books and Other Publications; 2. Installing MySQL; Choosing a Distribution; Unix Source Distributions; Unix Binary Distributions; Linux RPM Distributions; Macintosh OS X Distributions; Novell NetWare Distributions; Windows Distributions; Postinstallation; 3. MySQL Basics; The MySQL Client; Creating a Database and Tables; Show Me Inserting Data; Selecting Data; Ordering, Limiting, and Grouping; Analyzing and Manipulating Data; Changing Data; Deleting Data; Searching Data; Importing Data in Bulk Command-Line Interface; Conclusion; 4. SQL Statements; Statements Grouped by Type; Statements and Clauses in Alphabetical Order; Alter Database; Alter Table; Alter View; Analyze Table; Backup Table; Cache Index; Change Master To Check Table; Checksum Table Commit; Create Database; Create Index; Create Table; Create View; Delete; Describe; Do; Drop Database; Drop Index; Drop Table; Drop User; Drop View; Explain; Flush; Grant; Handler; Insert; Join; Kill; Load Data From Master; Load Data Infile; Load Index Into Cache; Load Table...From Master; Lock Tables; Optimize Table; Purge Master Logs; Rename Table; Repair Table; Replace; Reset; Reset Master; Reset Slave; Restore Table; Revoke Rollback; Rollback To Savepoint; Savepoint Select; Set; Set Password; Set Sql_Log_Bin; Set Transaction; Show Binlog Events; Show Character Set; Show Collation; Show Columns; Show Create Database; Show Create Table; Show Create View; Show Databases; Show Engines; Show Errors; Show Grants; Show Index; Show Innodb Status; Show Logs; Show Master Logs; Show Master Status; Show Privileges; Show Processlist; Show Slave Hosts; Show Slave Status; Show Status; Show Table Status; Show Tables; Show Variables; Show Warnings; Start Slave; Start Transaction; Stop Slave; Truncate Table; Union; Unlock Tables; Use; 5. String functions string functions grouped by type string functions in alphabetical order; aes_decrypt; aes_encrypt; ascii; bin; binary; bit_length; char; char_length; character_length; compress; concat; concat_ws; conv; decode; des_decrypt; des_encrypt; elt; encode; encrypt; export_set; field; find_in_set; hex; inet_aton; inet_ntoa; insert; instr; lcase; left; length; load_file; locate; lower; lpad; ltrim; make_set; match; against; md5; mid; oct; octet_length; old_password; ord; password; position; quote; repeat; replace; reverse; right; rpad; rtrim; sha; sha1; soundex; space; strcmp; substring; substring_index; trim; ucase; uncompress; uncompressed_length; unhex; upper; 6. date and time functions date and time functions grouped by type determining the date and time extracting and formatting the date and time calculating and modifying the date and time date and time functions in alphabetical order adddate; addtime; convert_tz; curdate; current_date; current_time; current_timestamp; curtime; date; date_add; date_format; date_sub; datediff; day; dayname; dayofmonth; dayofweek; dayofyear; extract; from_days; from_unixtime; get_format; hour; last_day; localtime; localtimestamp; makedate; maketime; microsecond; minute; month; monthname; now; period_add; period_diff; quarter; sec_to_time; second; str_to_date; subdate; subtime; sysdate; time; timediff; timestamp; timestampdiff; timestampadd; time_format; time_to_sec; to_days; unix_timestamp; utc_date; utc_time; utc_timestamp; week; weekday; weekofyear; year; yearweek; 7. mathematical and aggregate functions functions in alphabetical order abs; acos; asin; atan; atan2; avg; bit_and; bit_or; bit_xor; ceil; ceiling; cos; cot; count; crc32; degrees; exp; floor; format; greatest; group_concat; least; ln; log; log2; log10; max; min; mod; pi; pow; power; radians; rand; round; sign; sin; sqrt; std; stddev; sum; tan; truncate; variance; 8. flow control functions functions in alphabetical order case; if; ifnull; nullif; 9. miscellaneous functions functions in alphabetical order analyse; benchmark; bit_count; cast; charset; coalesce; coercibility; collation; connection_id; convert; current_user; database; found_rows; get_lock; interval; is_free_lock; is_used_lock; isnull; last_insert_id; master_pos_wait; release_lock; session_user; system_user; user; uuid; version; 10. MySQL Server and Client mysql mysqld mysqld_multi mysqld_safe; 11. Command-Line Utilities comp_err isamchk make_binary_distribution msql2mysql my_print_defaults; myisamchk myisamlog myisampack mysqlaccess mysqladmin; mysqlbinlog mysqlbug mysqlcheck mysqldump mysqldumpslow; mysqlhotcopy mysqlimport mysqlshow perror 12. Perl API; Using Perl DBI with MySQL Perl DBI Method and Function Reference; available_drivers; begin_work; bind_col; bind_columns; bind_param; bind_param_array; bind_param_inout; can; clone; column_info; commit; connect; connect_cached; data_sources; disconnect; do; dump_results; err; errstr; execute; execute_array; execute_for_fetch; fetch; fetchall_arrayref; fetchall_hashref; fetchrow_array; fetchrow_arrayref; fetchrow_hashref; finish; foreign_key_info; func; get_info; nstalled_versions; last_insert_id; looks_like_number; neat; neat_list; parse_dsn; parse_trace_flag; parse_trace_flags; ping; prepare; prepare_cached; primary_key; primary_key_info; quote; quote_identifier; rollback; rows; selectall_arrayref; selectall_hashref; selectcol_arrayref; selectrow_array; selectrow_arrayref; selectrow_hashref; set_err; state; table_info; table_info_all; tables; trace; trace_msg; type_info; type_info_all; Attributes for Handles; 13. PHP API Using PHP with MySQL PHP MySQL Functions in Alphabetical Order mysql_affected_rows; mysql_change_user; mysql_client_encoding; mysql_close; mysql_connect; mysql_create_db; mysql_data_seek; mysql_db_name; mysql_db_query; mysql_drop_db; mysql_errno; mysql_error; mysql_escape_string; mysql_fetch_array; mysql_fetch_assoc; mysql_fetch_field; mysql_fetch_lengths; mysql_fetch_object; mysql_fetch_row; mysql_field_flags; mysql_field_len; mysql_field_name; mysql_field_seek; mysql_field_table; mysql_field_type; mysql_free_result; mysql_get_client_info; mysql_get_host_info; mysql_get_proto_info; mysql_get_server_info; mysql_info; mysql_insert_id; mysql_list_dbs; mysql_list_fields; mysql_list_processes; mysql_list_tables; mysql_num_fields; mysql_num_rows; mysql_pconnect; mysql_ping; mysql_query; mysql_real_escape_string; mysql_result; mysql_select_db; mysql_stat; mysql_tablename; mysql_thread_id; mysql_unbuffered_query; 14. C API Using C with MySQL; Functions in Alphabetical Order mysql_affected_rows; mysql_autocommit; mysql_change_user; mysql_character_set_name; mysql_close; mysql_commit; mysql_connect; mysql_create_db; mysql_data_seek; mysql_debug; mysql_drop_db; mysql_dump_debug_info; mysql_eof; mysql_errno; mysql_error; mysql_escape_string; mysql_fetch_field; mysql_fetch_field_direct; mysql_fetch_fields; mysql_fetch_lengths; mysql_fetch_row; mysql_field_count; mysql_field_seek; mysql_field_tell; mysql_free_result; mysql_get_client_info; mysql_get_client_version; mysql_get_host_info; mysql_get_proto_info; mysql_get_server_info; mysql_get_server_version; mysql_info; mysql_init; mysql_insert_id; mysql_kill; mysql_list_dbs; mysql_list_fields; mysql_list_processes; mysql_list_tables; mysql_more_results; mysql_next_result; mysql_num_fields; mysql_num_rows; mysql_options; mysql_ping; mysql_query; mysql_real_connect; mysql_real_escape_string; mysql_real_query; mysql_reload; mysql_rollback; mysql_row_seek; mysql_row_tell; mysql_select_db; mysql_set_server_option; mysql_shutdown; mysql_sqlstate; mysql_stat; mysql_store_result; mysql_thread_id; mysql_thread_safe; mysql_use_result; mysql_warning_count; C API Datatypes; A. Datatypes; B. Operators; C. Environment Variables; Index