Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes provides a no-fluff, just-the-answers guide to building and managing MySQL databases. It is carefully organized and thoughtfully written to provide just the information that you need in order to gain a rapid working knowledge of MySQL. Get up to speed quickly with Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes.

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it is out of date (using mysql 4.0) - 2007-09-14
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This book is based on MySQL 4.0 and some commands don't work on the new version. And this book also has lots of errors. For example, some code (products table)of the sampdb is missing in Appendix B. And it also misses some details so that you have to solve them by yourself.Interesting though.

Easy read...very useful - 2007-04-23
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I have read only half this book (the first half which is dedicated to beginners database work) and found it easy to read and useful. When I become advanced enough I will read the second half. It includes topics like the SQL off-limits words that you shouldn't use in your database naming fields - which is always helpful (Especially when you are like "I know this function should be working!" and it isn't because you've used something in that list - you won't spend hours trying to debug your code!)

I will buy Sams Teach yourself books for other topics again.

Useful quick reference/learning book - 2009-01-06
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I got this having already waded into MySQL by reading things online. I was looking for extra things I had not already taught myself, and a quick reference when I forget how to do some basic things. It serves that purpose well. I have not had problems with out of date things or errors as another reviewer mentioned, but I am not a DBA by any means... I tend to just do simple things in SQL. I am more comfortable in code, so I do big manipulations of data outside the DB in Java or C++.

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