MySQL Book/Tutorial/Video for Beginner?

Question

I have download and install MySQL and once I start the programme I knew I need further help.

I found few title by O'Reilly.

1) High Performance MySQL 2) MySQL Cookbook 3) MySQL in a Nutshell 4) MySQL pocket reference 5) Managing and Using MySQL

Please recommend which book is for database. If you know any tutorial/video which is available, please state too. I would like to know from downloading the software to installation and have a lot of illustration.

Answer 1

Definitions for PHP and MySQL

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a popular general-purpose server side scripting language which can be embedded into HTML to create a wide variety of mini-applications, but can also be used to build large-scale complex applications.

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MySQL is an open source database software based on the SQL vocabulary which can be employed in combination with most server-side languages, but which is most commonly employed with PHP.

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Very good video resource to learn how you could combine both, and retrieve data with php from a mysql database is PHP with MySQL Essential Training. If you wish to have more deep and clear explanation for what SQL is and how it works, you may find useful SQL Essential Training video series.

Of course there are tons of books for MySQL and PHP.