If you include, as the author does, the beginnings with mSQL, then MySQL’s origins can be traced to the late 1970s, though the database we now know as MySQL was released in 1996 so users can probably guess there are a few arcane corners to this open-source poster child– fortunately this book does an excellent job shining a light in all those corners you knew where there– and a bunch you probably didn’t.

The book is written for the 5.x version of MySQL and so there’s coverage of 5.x features like stored procedures, triggers, views, the archive storage engine and a More >