# Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition (September 24, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596004818
# ISBN-13: 978-0596004811

# Publisher: Apress (April 9, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590599438
# ISBN-13: 978-1590599433

# Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (April 30, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0131497359
# ISBN-13: 978-0131497351

# Publisher: Apress (January 22, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590597419
# ISBN-13: 978-1590597415

Book Description

Since the enormous number of new features made available with MySQL release 5.0, MySQL has been gaining steam as a viable alternative to database behemoths like Oracle and IBM DB2. MySQL users now have the ability to extend MySQL with new SQL commands, optimize query execution, and embed MySQL within low-resource environments like embedded devices and kiosks.

# Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (March 1, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596008945
# ISBN-13: 978-0596008949

Book Description
For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data. Database performance has become a major headache, and most IT departments believe that developers should provide simple SQL code to solve immediate problems and let DBAs tune any "bad SQL" later.

# Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 4 edition (September 26, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0321305965
# ISBN-13: 978-0321305961

Book Description

The Classic SQL Tutorial: Fully Updated for Today’s Standards and Today’s Top Databases

For twenty years, van der Lans’ Introduction to SQL has been the definitive SQL tutorial for database professionals everywhere, regardless of experience or platform. Now van der Lans has systematically updated this classic guide to reflect the latest SQL standards and the newest versions of today’s leading RDBMSs: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, and MySQL.

# Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2 edition (September 21, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0123735963
# ISBN-13: 978-0123735966

Book Description
In this complete revision and expansion of his first SQL Puzzles book, Joe Celko challenges you with his trickiest puzzlesand then helps solve them with a variety of solutions and explanations. Joe demonstrates the thought processes that are involved in attacking a problem from an SQL perspective to help advanced database programmers solve the puzzles you frequently face. These techniques not only help with the puzzle at hand, but help develop the mindset needed to solve the many difficult SQL puzzles you face every day. Of course, part of the fun is to see whether or not you can write better solutions than Joes.

# Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2 edition (September 21, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0123735963
# ISBN-13: 978-0123735966

Book Description
In this complete revision and expansion of his first SQL Puzzles book, Joe Celko challenges you with his trickiest puzzlesand then helps solve them with a variety of solutions and explanations. Joe demonstrates the thought processes that are involved in attacking a problem from an SQL perspective to help advanced database programmers solve the puzzles you frequently face. These techniques not only help with the puzzle at hand, but help develop the mindset needed to solve the many difficult SQL puzzles you face every day. Of course, part of the fun is to see whether or not you can write better solutions than Joes.

# Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Cdr edition (April 1, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0764525840
# ISBN-13: 978-0764525841

Book Description

   * Covers the latest version of the ISO SQL standard (SQL-99) and gives readers information they need to know about the differences in vendor-specific SQL implementations including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2
   * Knowledge of this ubiquitous database programming language is becoming more critical as IT departments move toward more integrated heterogeneous platforms
   * Covers growing use of SQL with Web services and XML
   * CD-ROM includes a complete sample database and trial versions of major relational database management software

# Publisher: Sams; 2 edition (December 17, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0672323923
# ISBN-13: 978-0672323928

Book Description

MySQL is the most widely installed open-source database. Approximately 3.5 million MySQL servers are in use and more than 45% of databases used on Linux worldwide are MySQL databases.