Learn the essentials of creating web apps with some of the most popular programming languages PHP, MySQL, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies bundles the essentials of coding in some of the most in-demand web development languages. You'll learn to create your own data-driven web applications and interactive web content. The three powerful languages covered in this book form the backbone of top online apps like Wikipedia and Etsy. Paired with the basics of HTML and CSS—also covered in this All-in-One Dummies guide—you can make dynamic websites with a variety of elements. This book makes it easy to get started. You'll also find coverage of advanced skills, as well as resources you'll appreciate when you're ready to level up. Get beginner-friendly instructions and clear explanations of how to program websites in common languages Understand the basics of object-oriented programming, interacting with databases, and connecting front- and back-end code Learn how to work according to popular DevOps principles, including containers and microservices Troubleshoot problems in your code and avoid common web development mistakes This All-in-One is a great value for new programmers looking to pick up web development skills, as well as those with more experience who want to expand to building web apps.

Your MySQL instances are probably broken. Many developers face slow-running queries, issues related to database architecture, replication, or database security—and that’s only the beginning. This book will deliver answers to your most pressing MySQL database questions related to performance, availability, or security by uncovering what causes databases to break in the first place. At its core, this book provides you with the knowledge necessary for you to break your database instances so you can better optimize it for performance and secure it from data breaches. In other words, you’ll discover the sorts of actions, minor and major, that degrade databases so you can fix and ultimately preempt them. MySQL sometimes acts according to its own rules, and this book will help you keep it working on your terms. At the same time, you will learn to optimize your backup and recovery procedures, determine when and which data to index to achieve maximum performance, and choose the best MySQL configurations, among other essential skills. Most MySQL books focus exclusively on optimization, but this book argues that it’s just as important to pay attention to the ways databases break. Indeed, after reading this book, you will be able to safely break your database instances to expose and overcome the nuanced issues that affect performance, availability, and security. What You Will Learn Know the basics of MySQL and the storage engines innoDB and MyISAM Spot the ways you are harming your database’s performance, availability and security without even realizing it Fix minor bugs and issues that have surprisingly serious impact Optimize schema, data types, queries, indexes, and partitions to head off issues Understand key MySQL security strategies Who This Book Is For Database administrators, web developers, systems administrators, and security professionals with an intermediary knowledge of database management systems and building applications in MySQL

Discover how to design and optimize modern databases efficiently using PostgreSQL and MySQL. This book guides you through database design for scalability and performance, covering data modeling, query optimization, and real-world application integration. What this Book will help me do Build efficient and scalable relational database schemas for real-world applications. Master data modeling with normalization and denormalization techniques. Understand query optimization strategies for better database performance. Learn database strategies such as sharding, replication, and backup management. Integrate relational databases with applications and explore future database trends. Author(s) Alkin Tezuysal and Ibrar Ahmed are seasoned database professionals with decades of experience. Alkin specializes in database scalability and performance, while Ibrar brings expertise in database systems and development. Together, they bring a hands-on approach, providing clear and insightful guidance for database professionals. Who is it for? This book is oriented towards software developers, database administrators, and IT professionals looking to enhance their knowledge in database design using PostgreSQL and MySQL. Beginners in database design will find its structured approach approachable. Advanced professionals will appreciate its depth on cutting-edge topics and practical optimizations.

Geared to intermediate- to advanced-level DBAs and IT professionals looking to enhance their MySQL skills, this guide provides a comprehensive overview on how to manage and optimize MySQL databases. You'll learn how to create databases and implement backup and recovery, security configurations, high availability, scaling techniques, and performance tuning. Using practical techniques, tips, and real-world examples, authors Arunjith Aravindan and Jeyaram Ayyalusamy show you how to deploy and manage MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Azure MySQL. By the end of the book, you'll have the knowledge and skills necessary to administer, manage, and optimize MySQL databases effectively. Design and implement a scalable and reliable database infrastructure using MySQL 8 on premises and cloud Install and configure software, manage user accounts, and optimize database performance Use backup and recovery strategies, security measures, and high availability solutions Apply best practices for database schema design, indexing strategies, and replication techniques Implement advanced database features and techniques such as replication, clustering, load balancing, and high availability Troubleshoot common issues and errors, using diagnostic tools and techniques to identify and resolve problems quickly and efficiently Facilitate major MySQL upgrades including MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8

This book is your one-stop resource on MySQL database installation and server management for administrators. It covers installation, upgrades, monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery, security, and performance and troubleshooting. You will become fluent in MySQL 8.2, the latest version of the highly scalable and robust relational database system. With a hands-on approach, the book offers step-by-step guidance on installing, upgrading, and establishing robust high availability and disaster recovery capabilities for MySQL databases. It also covers high availability with InnoDB and NDB clusters, MySQL routers and enterprise MySQL tools, along with robust security design and performance techniques. Throughout, the authors punctuate concepts with examples taken from their experience with large-scale implementations at companies such as Meta and American Airlines, anchoring this practical guide to MySQL 8.2 administration in the real world. What YouWill Learn Understand MySQL architecture and best practices for administration of MySQL server Configure high availability, replication, disaster recovery with InnoDB and NDB engines Back up and restore with MySQL utilities and tools, and configure the database for zero data loss Troubleshoot with steps for real-world critical errors and detailed solutions Who This Book Is For Technical professionals, database administrators, developers, and engineers seeking to optimize MySQL databases for scale, security, and performance

"Learn SQL using MySQL in One Day and Learn It Well" is your hands-on guide to mastering SQL efficiently using MySQL. This book takes you from understanding basic database concepts to executing advanced queries and implementing essential features like triggers and routines. With a project-based approach, you will confidently manage databases and unlock the potential of data. What this Book will help me do Understand database concepts and relational data architecture. Design and define tables to organize and store data effectively. Perform advanced SQL queries to manipulate and analyze data efficiently. Implement database triggers, views, and routines for advanced management. Apply practical skills in SQL through a comprehensive hands-on project. Author(s) Jamie Chan is a professional instructor and technical writer with extensive experience in database management and software development. Known for a clear and engaging teaching style, Jamie has authored numerous books focusing on hands-on learning. Jamie approaches pedagogy with the goal of making technical subjects accessible and practical for all learners. Who is it for? This book is designed for beginners eager to learn SQL and MySQL from scratch. It is perfect for professionals or students who want relevant and actionable skills in database management. Whether you're looking to enhance career prospects or leverage database tools for personal projects, this book is your practical starting point. Basic computer literacy is all that's needed.

MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems available, powering everything from Internet powerhouses to individual corporate databases to simple end-user applications, and everything in between. This book will teach you all you need to know to be immediately productive with the latest version of MySQL. By working through 30 highly focused hands-on lessons, your MySQL Crash Course will be both easier and more effective than youd have thought possible. Learn How To Retrieve and Sort Data Filter Data Using Comparisons, Regular Expressions, Full Text Search, and Much More Join Relational Data Create and Alter Tables Insert, Update, and Delete Data Leverage the Power of Stored Procedures and Triggers Use Views and Cursors Manage Transactional Processing Create User Accounts and Manage Security via Access Control ...

This book will teach you the essential knowledge required to be a successful and productive web developer with the ability to produce cutting-edge websites utilizing a database. This updated edition starts with the fundamentals of web development before delving into Perl and MySQL concepts such as script and database modelling, script-driven database interactions, content generation from a database, and information delivery from the server to the browser and vice versa. The only skills required to get the most from this book are basic knowledge of how the Internet works and a novice skill level with Perl and MySQL. The rest is intuitively presented code that most people can quickly and easily understand and employ. An extensive selection of practical, fully functional programming constructs in six different programming languages will give you the knowledge and tools required to create eye-catching, capable, and functionally impressive database-driven websites. Author Thomas Valentine has taken the concepts presented in the first edition of this book to new heights, offering in-depth discussions of each area of functionality required to develop fully formed database-driven web applications. He has expanded on the examples presented in the first edition and has included some very interesting and useful programming techniques for your consideration. Upon completing this book, you’ll have gained the benefit of the author’s decades worth of experience and will be able to apply your new knowledge and skills to your own projects. What You Will Learn Install, configure and use a trio of software packages (Apache Web Server, MySQL Database Server, and Perl Scripting Server) Create an effective web development workstation with databases in mind Use the PERL scripting language and MySQL databases effectively Maximize the Apache Web Server Who This Book Is For Those who already know web development basics and web developers who want to master database-driven web development. The skills required to understand the concepts put forth in this book are a working knowledge of PERL and basic MySQL.

MySQL Crash Course is a fast-paced, no-nonsense introduction to relational database development. It’s filled with practical examples and expert advice that will have you up and running quickly. You’ll learn the basics of SQL, how to create a database, craft SQL queries to extract data, and work with events, procedures, and functions. You’ll see how to add constraints to tables to enforce rules about permitted data and use indexes to accelerate data retrieval. You’ll even explore how to call MySQL from PHP, Python, and Java. Three final projects will show you how to build a weather database from scratch, use triggers to prevent errors in an election database, and use views to protect sensitive data in a salary database. You’ll also learn how to: •Query database tables for specific information, order the results, comment SQL code, and deal with null values •Define table columns to hold strings, integers, and dates, and determine what data types to use •Join multiple database tables as well as use temporary tables, common table expressions, derived tables, and subqueries •Add, change, and remove data from tables, create views based on specific queries, write reusable stored routines, and automate and schedule events The perfect quick-start resource for database developers, MySQL Crash Course will arm you with the tools you need to build and manage fast, powerful, and secure MySQL-based data storage systems.

Migrate your existing, on-premises applications into the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. This book covers the best practices to plan, implement, and operationalize the migration of a database application from your organization’s data center to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Data modernization and migration is a technologically complex endeavor that can also be taxing from a leadership and operational standpoint. This book covers not only the technology, but also the most important aspects of organization culture, communication, and politics that so frequently derail such projects. You will learn the most important steps to ensuring a successful migration and see battle-tested wisdom from industry veterans. From executive sponsorship, to executing the migration, to the important steps following migration, you will learn how to effectively conduct future migrations and ensure that your team and your database application delivers on the expected business value of the project. This book is unlike any other currently in the market. It takes you through the most critical business and technical considerations and workflows for moving your data and databases into the cloud, with special attention paid to those who are deploying to the Microsoft Data Platform in Azure, especially SQL Server. Although this book focuses on migrating on-premises SQL Server enterprises to hybrid or fully cloud-based Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances, it also cover topics involving migrating non-SQL Server database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL applications to Microsoft Azure. What You Will Learn Plan a database migration that ensures smooth project progress, optimal performance, low operating cost, and minimal downtime Properly analyze and manage non-technical considerations, such as legal compliance, privacy, and team execution Perform athorough architectural analysis to select the best Azure services, performance tiers, and cost-containment features Avoid pitfalls and common reasons for failure relating to corporate culture, intra-office politics, and poor communications Secure the proper executive champions who can execute the business planning needed for success Apply proven criteria to determine your future-state architecture and your migration method Execute your migration using a process proven by the authors over years of successful projects Who This Book Is For IT leadership, strategic IT decision makers, project owners and managers, and enterprise and application architects. For anyone looking toward cloud migration projects as the next stage of growth in their careers. Also useful for enterprise DBAs and consultants who might be involved in such projects. Readers should have experience and be competent in designing, coding, implementing, and supporting database applications in an on-premises environment.

For MySQL, the price of popularity comes with a flood of questions from users on how to solve specific data-related issues. That's where this cookbook comes in. When you need quick solutions or techniques, this handy resource provides scores of short, focused pieces of code, hundreds of worked-out examples, and clear, concise explanations for programmers who don't have the time (or expertise) to resolve MySQL problems from scratch. In this updated fourth edition, authors Sveta Smirnova and Alkin Tezuysal provide more than 200 recipes that cover powerful features in both MySQL 5.7 and 8.0. Beginners as well as professional database and web developers will dive into topics such as MySQL Shell, MySQL replication, and working with JSON. You'll learn how to: Connect to a server, issue queries, and retrieve results Retrieve data from the MySQL Server Store, retrieve, and manipulate strings Work with dates and times Sort query results and generate summaries Assess the characteristics of a dataset Write stored functions and procedures Use stored routines, triggers, and scheduled events Perform basic MySQL administration tasks Understand MySQL monitoring fundamentals

The MySQL Workshop is your comprehensive, hands-on guide to learning and mastering MySQL database management. This book covers everything from setting up a database to working with SQL queries, managing data, and securing your databases. With practical exercises and real-world scenarios, you'll quickly gain the confidence and skills to handle MySQL databases effectively. What this Book will help me do Understand and implement the core concepts of relational databases. Write, execute, and optimize SQL queries for data management. Connect MySQL databases to applications like MS Access and Excel. Secure databases by managing user roles and permissions effectively. Perform database backups and restores to maintain data integrity. Author(s) Thomas Pettit and Scott Cosentino are experienced professionals in database management and MySQL technologies. With years of industry experience, they bring a wealth of knowledge to their writing. They focus on breaking down complex topics into digestible lessons, ensuring practical learning outcomes. Who is it for? This book is ideal for tech professionals and students looking to learn MySQL. Beginners will find a gentle introduction, while those with some SQL background will deepen their understanding and cover gaps in knowledge. It suits professionals dealing with data who want actionable MySQL skills for work and projects.

Leverage Apache Spark within a modern data engineering ecosystem. This hands-on guide will teach you how to write fully functional applications, follow industry best practices, and learn the rationale behind these decisions. With Apache Spark as the foundation, you will follow a step-by-step journey beginning with the basics of data ingestion, processing, and transformation, and ending up with an entire local data platform running Apache Spark, Apache Zeppelin, Apache Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Minio (S3), and Apache Airflow. Apache Spark applications solve a wide range of data problems from traditional data loading and processing to rich SQL-based analysis as well as complex machine learning workloads and even near real-time processing of streaming data. Spark fits well as a central foundation for any data engineering workload. This book will teach you to write interactive Spark applications using Apache Zeppelin notebooks, write and compilereusable applications and modules, and fully test both batch and streaming. You will also learn to containerize your applications using Docker and run and deploy your Spark applications using a variety of tools such as Apache Airflow, Docker and Kubernetes. ​Reading this book will empower you to take advantage of Apache Spark to optimize your data pipelines and teach you to craft modular and testable Spark applications. You will create and deploy mission-critical streaming spark applications in a low-stress environment that paves the way for your own path to production. ​ What You Will Learn Simplify data transformation with Spark Pipelines and Spark SQL Bridge data engineering with machine learning Architect modular data pipeline applications Build reusable application components and libraries Containerize your Spark applications for consistency and reliability Use Docker and Kubernetes to deploy your Spark applications Speed up application experimentation using Apache Zeppelin and Docker Understand serializable structured data and data contracts Harness effective strategies for optimizing data in your data lakes Build end-to-end Spark structured streaming applications using Redis and Apache Kafka Embrace testing for your batch and streaming applications Deploy and monitor your Spark applications Who This Book Is For Professional software engineers who want to take their current skills and apply them to new and exciting opportunities within the data ecosystem, practicing data engineers who are looking for a guiding light while traversing the many challenges of moving from batch to streaming modes, data architects who wish to provide clear and concise direction for how best to harness anduse Apache Spark within their organization, and those interested in the ins and outs of becoming a modern data engineer in today's fast-paced and data-hungry world

PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 7th Edition is a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a professional web application using PHP & MySQL. Comprehensively updated to cover PHP 8 and modern best practice, this highly practical and fun book covers everything from installation through to creating a complete online content management system. Gain a thorough understanding of PHP syntax Master database design principles and SQL Write robust, maintainable, best practice code Build a working content management system (CMS) And much more!

You'll find several books on basic or advanced MySQL performance, but nothing in between. That's because explaining MySQL performance without addressing its complexity is difficult. This practical book bridges the gap by teaching software engineers mid-level MySQL knowledge beyond the fundamentals, but well shy of deep-level internals required by database administrators (DBAs). Daniel Nichter shows you how to apply the best practices and techniques that directly affect MySQL performance. You'll learn how to improve performance by analyzing query execution, indexing for common SQL clauses and table joins, optimizing data access, and understanding the most important MySQL metrics. You'll also discover how replication, transactions, row locking, and the cloud influenceMySQL performance. Understand why query response time is the North Star of MySQL performance Learn query metrics in detail, including aggregation, reporting, and analysis See how to index effectively for common SQL clauses and table joins Explore the most important server metrics and what they reveal about performance Dive into transactions and row locking to gain deep, actionable insight Achieve remarkable MySQL performance at any scale

How can you realize MySQL's full power? With High Performance MySQL, you'll learn advanced techniques for everything from setting service-level objectives to designing schemas, indexes, and queries to tuning your server, operating system, and hardware to achieve your platform's full potential. This guide also teaches database administrators safe and practical ways to scale applications through replication, load balancing, high availability, and failover. Updated to reflect recent advances in cloud- and self-hosted MySQL, InnoDB performance, and new features and tools, this revised edition helps you design a relational data platform that will scale with your business. You'll learn best practices for database security along with hard-earned lessons in both performance and database stability. Dive into MySQL's architecture, including key facts about its storage engines Learn how server configuration works with your hardware and deployment choices Make query performance part of your software delivery process Examine enhancements to MySQL's replication and high availability Compare different MySQL offerings in managed cloud environments Explore MySQL's full stack optimization from application-side configuration to server tuning Turn traditional database management tasks into automated processes

Get a comprehensive overview on how to set up and design an effective database with MySQL. This thoroughly updated edition covers MySQL's latest version, including its most important aspects. Whether you're deploying an environment, troubleshooting an issue, or engaging in disaster recovery, this practical guide provides the insights and tools necessary to take full advantage of this powerful RDBMS. Authors Vinicius Grippa and Sergey Kuzmichev from Percona show developers and DBAs methods for minimizing costs and maximizing availability and performance. You'll learn how to perform basic and advanced querying, monitoring and troubleshooting, database management and security, backup and recovery, and tuning for improved efficiency. This edition includes new chapters on high availability, load balancing, and using MySQL in the cloud. Get started with MySQL and learn how to use it in production Deploy MySQL databases on bare metal, on virtual machines, and in the cloud Design database infrastructures Code highly efficient queries Monitor and troubleshoot MySQL databases Execute efficient backup and restore operations Optimize database costs in the cloud Understand database concepts, especially those pertaining to MySQL

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. With the latest edition of this popular hands-on guide, you'll tackle dynamic web programming using the most recent versions of today's core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, jQuery, and the powerful React library. Web designers will learn how to use these technologies together while picking up valuable web programming practices along the way, including how to optimize websites for mobile devices. You'll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site suitable for both desktop and mobile browsers. Explore MySQL from database structure to complex queries Use the MySQL PDO extension, PHP's improved MySQL interface Create dynamic PHP web pages that tailor themselves to the user Manage cookies and sessions and maintain a high level of security Enhance JavaScript with the React library Use Ajax calls for background browser-server communication Style your web pages by acquiring CSS skills Implement HTML5 features, including geolocation, audio, video, and the canvas element Reformat your websites into mobile web apps

Learn to operate at a professional level with HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript, PERL and the MySQL database. With plain language explanations and step-by-step examples, you will understand the key facets of web development that today’s employers are looking for. Encapsulating knowledge that is usually found in many books rather than one, this is your one-stop tutorial to becoming a web professional. You will learn how to use the PERL scripting language and the MySQL database to create powerful web applications. Each chapter will become progressively more challenging as you progress through experimentation and ultimately master database-driven web development via the web applications studied in the last chapters. Including practical tips and guidance gleaned from 20+ years of working as a web developer, Thomas Valentine provides you with all the information you need to prosper as a professional database-driven web professional. What You'll Learn Leverage standard web technologies to benefit a database-driven approach Create an effective web development workstation with databases in mind Use the PERL scripting language and the MySQL database effectively Maximize the Apache Web Server Who This Book Is For The primary audience for this book are those who know already know web development basics and web developers who want to master database driven web development. The skills required to understand the concepts put forth are a working knowledge of PERL and basic MySQL.

Know how locks work in MySQL and how they relate to transactions. This book explains the major role that locks play in database systems, showing how locks are essential in allowing high-concurrency workloads. You will learn about lock access levels and lock granularities from the user level as well as table locks to record and gap locks. Most importantly, the book covers troubleshooting techniques when locking becomes a pain point. Several of the lock types in MySQL have a duration of a transaction. For this reason, it is important to understand how transactions work. This book covers the basics of transactions as well as transaction isolation levels and how they affect locking. The book is meant to be your go-to resource for solving locking contention and similar problems in high-performance MySQL database applications. Detecting locking issues when they occur is the first key to resolving such issues. MySQL Concurrency provides techniques for detecting locking issues such as contention. The book shows how to analyze locks that are causing contention to see why those locks are in place. A collection of six comprehensive case studies combine locking and transactional theory with realistic lock conflicts. The case studies walk you through the symptoms to look for in order to identify which issue you are facing, the cause of the conflict, its analysis, solution, and how to prevent the issue in the future. What You Will Learn Understand which lock types exist in MySQL and how they are used Choose the best transaction isolation level for a given transaction Detect and analyze lock contention when it occurs Reduce locking issues in your applications Resolve deadlocks between transactions Resolve InnoDB record-level locking issues Resolve issues from metadata and schema locks Who This Book Is For Database administrators and SQL developers who are familiar with MySQL and want to gain a better understanding of locking and transactions as well as how to work with them. While some experience with MySQL is required, no prior knowledge of locks and transactions is needed.