Following on from the last two days of MySQL training, you'll see a number of blog entries covering
stored procedures,
securing a mysql server, and
exploring database requests in PHP.

Further technical diagrams can be found
here ... including how to make your select queries efficient, table locking, storing of calculated results (in summary, don't!) and why server and client are shipped together. The diagram alongside this text shows how a query that joins two tables with around 10,000 records each may produce a temporary table internally with 90 million records if you write an inefficient joing, but just 10,000 temporary records with a very slight tuning of the SQL command.
MySQL is covered on our public
public MySQL course, and its installation within a LAMP environment on
deploying LAMP. Calling up MySQL databases from individual languages when you're programming is covered on the appropriate language course ... typically these course give only a brief overview of MySQL and also tell you how you use Sqlite, Oracle and other databases too.
(written 2009-10-10, updated 2009-10-12)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
S157 - More MySQL commands [158] MySQL - LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN, INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN - (2004-12-20)
[159] MySQL - Optimising Selects - (2004-12-21)
[279] Getting a list of unique values from a MySQL column - (2005-04-14)
[449] Matching in MySQL - (2005-09-24)
[494] MySQL - a score of things to remember - (2005-11-12)
[502] SELECT in MySQL - choosing the rows you want - (2005-11-22)
[513] MySQL - JOIN or WHERE to link tables correctly? - (2005-12-01)
[515] MySQL - an FAQ - (2005-12-03)
[517] An occasional chance, and reducing data to manageable levels - (2005-12-04)
[567] Combining similar rows from a MySQL database select - (2006-01-17)
[572] Giving the researcher power over database analysis - (2006-01-22)
[581] Saving a MySQL query results to your local disc for Excel - (2006-01-29)
[591] Key facts - SQL and MySQL - (2006-02-04)
[673] Helicopter views and tartans - (2006-04-06)
[1213] MySQL - the order of clauses and the order of actions - (2007-06-01)
[1235] Outputting numbers as words - MySQL with Perl or PHP - (2007-06-17)
[1331] MySQL joins revisited - (2007-09-03)
[1574] Joining MySQL tables revisited - finding nonmatching records, etc - (2008-03-15)
[1735] Finding words and work boundaries (MySQL, Perl, PHP) - (2008-08-03)
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes - (2008-11-23)
[2110] MySQL - looking for records in one table that do NOT correspond to records in another table - (2009-03-31)
[2259] Grouping rows for a summary report - MySQL and PHP - (2009-06-27)
[2643] Relating tables with joins in MySQL - (2010-02-21)
[2644] Counting rows in joined MySQL tables - (2010-02-22)
[2645] Optimising and caching your MySQL enquiries - (2010-02-22)
[2647] Removing duplicates from a MySQL table - (2010-02-22)
[3061] Databases - why data is split into separate tables, and how to join them - (2010-11-20)
[3270] SQL - Data v Metadata, and the various stages of data selection - (2011-04-29)
[4481] Extracting data from backups to restore selected rows from MySQL tables - (2015-05-01)
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