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MySQL for Beginners: Build, Query, and Manage Databases for Websites and Small Apps
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Do you want to build the database behind a website or small application but feel overwhelmed by tables, relationships, SQL commands, permissions, and unfamiliar technical tools?
MySQL for Beginners is a practical, step-by-step guide to designing, querying, securing, and maintaining relational databases for real applications. Written for complete beginners, it explains how MySQL works and shows you how to turn ordinary requirements into structured systems that are easier to understand, protect, and expand.
You will begin by learning what databases are, how MySQL differs from SQL, and why relational design matters. From there, you will install the server, connect with command-line and graphical tools, create databases and tables, add sample records, write useful queries, and manage changes safely.
The book goes beyond isolated commands. It explains how database decisions affect websites, booking systems, online stores, inventory tools, customer records, reports, and other small applications.
Inside this practical guide, you will learn how to:
- Install and configure MySQL for a safe learning environment
- Understand the server, client, database, table, row, and column model
- Connect through the command-line client and graphical tools
- Create databases and tables with clear names and suitable data types
- Retrieve information with SELECT statements
- Filter records with WHERE and pattern matching
- Sort results and return limited sets of records
- Work correctly with NULL values
- Add, update, and remove information safely
- Import small datasets into practice tables
- Design primary keys, natural keys, and surrogate keys
- Use AUTO_INCREMENT values appropriately
- Apply normalization without making small systems unnecessarily complicated
- Model one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships
- Connect related tables with foreign keys and joins
- Calculate totals, counts, averages, minimums, and maximums
- Create grouped reports with GROUP BY and HAVING
- Protect information with constraints and default values
- Use transactions to keep related changes reliable
- Create single-column and composite indexes
- Read simple query plans and investigate slow searches
- Build reusable reporting views
- Understand introductory stored procedures and functions
- Create separate users, roles, and limited application accounts
- Plan backups and confirm that important information can be restored
Throughout the book, practical examples use customers, products, orders, appointments, services, payments, and reports. These familiar scenarios help you understand how database structures support the actions people perform inside real software.
The final project brings the lessons together in a complete appointment-booking system. You will move from requirements and schema planning to table creation, sample information, practical queries, integrity rules, indexes, reporting views, user security, and backup checks.
No previous SQL, database administration, or programming experience is required. You only need basic computer skills, patience, and a willingness to practise in a safe environment.
This book is suitable for students, aspiring web developers, junior programmers, career changers, small-business technology users, support professionals, and anyone who wants to understand the database behind a website or application.
Stop copying commands without understanding their effect. Learn how to structure information properly, write readable queries, protect relationships, control access, and create small application databases you can trust.
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