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The MySQL Workshop

By : Thomas Pettit, Scott Cosentino
5 (1)
Book Image

The MySQL Workshop

5 (1)
By: Thomas Pettit, Scott Cosentino

Overview of this book

Do you want to learn how to create and maintain databases effectively? Are you looking for simple answers to basic MySQL questions as well as straightforward examples that you can use at work? If so, this workshop is the right choice for you. Designed to build your confidence through hands-on practice, this book uses a simple approach that focuses on the practical, so you can get straight down to business without having to wade through pages and pages of dull, dry theory. As you work through bite-sized exercises and activities, you'll learn how to use different MySQL tools to create a database and manage the data within it. You'll see how to transfer data between a MySQL database and other sources, and use real-world datasets to gain valuable experience of manipulating and gaining insights from data. As you progress, you'll discover how to protect your database by managing user permissions and performing logical backups and restores. If you've already tried to teach yourself SQL, but haven't been able to make the leap from understanding simple queries to working on live projects with a real database management system, The MySQL Workshop will get you on the right track. By the end of this MySQL book, you'll have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to advance your career and tackle your own ambitious projects with MySQL.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Creating Your Database
6
Section 2: Managing Your Database
11
Section 3: Querying Your Database
16
Section 4: Protecting Your Database

Chapter 5: Correlating Data across Tables

In this chapter, you will learn multiple ways to query data that is spread over more than one table. You will then use Common Table Expressions (CTEs) to build easy-to-follow queries where parts of the main query are abstracted out into separate parts. In addition, you will see how to work with a CTE to query for hierarchical data and generate ranges of numbers, dates, and more. Finally, you will learn how to use EXPLAIN to see how MySQL would execute a query.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to processing data across tables
  • Joining two tables
  • Analyzing subqueries
  • Common table expressions
  • Analyzing query performance with EXPLAIN
  • Activity 5.01: The Sakila video store
  • Activity 5.02: Generating a list of years