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Murach’s MySQL (4th Edition)
by Joel Murach
20 chapters, 652 pages, 267 figures
Published Novermber 2023
ISBN 978-1-943873-10-4
20 chapters, 652 pages, 267 figures
Published Novermber 2023
ISBN 978-1-943873-10-4
List price: $59.50
The fourth edition of our best-selling MySQL book works better than ever for teaching SQL and database design. We’ve carefully checked and updated every example so your students will be getting the best possible learning experience. Regardless of prior skill level, they’ll appreciate the real-world examples, easy-to-understand instructions, and meaningful assignments.
A complete set of instructor’s materials is available for this book so you can spend your time teaching, not prepping. Request your review copy today and see why Murach’s MySQL is an enduring staple in programming classrooms.
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Comprehensive, exceptionally organized and presented, and a ‘must-have’ guide for anyone who works with MySQL, beginning and experienced developers alike, […] Murach’s MySQL is an ideal curriculum textbook for school, community, and academic library Computer Software collections, and an enduringly valued reference of all MySQL users."
James Cox, Midwest Book Review
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Book description
Section 1: An introduction to SQL
This section presents a solid foundation in SQL skills. It starts by presenting the concepts and terms for working with any database. Then, it shows how to code and run the basic SQL statements for retrieving, adding, updating, and deleting data in a MySQL database. When your students complete this section, they’ll be ready to continue with any of the other sections in the book.
Section 2: More SQL skills as you need them
This section presents advanced SQL skills for retrieving data from a database. That includes working with summary queries, subqueries, data types, and functions. These chapters are modular, so you can teach them in whatever sequence you prefer.
Section 3: Database design and implementation
This section shows how to design a database and how to implement that design by using either SQL statements or MySQL Workbench. When your students are done, they’ll be able to design and implement their own databases. In addition, this section shows how to create and use views to simplify data access and improve data security.
Section 4: Stored program development
This section takes your students from good MySQL programmers to great ones by teaching them how to create stored programs. Here, they’ll learn how to create stored procedures that use MySQL’s procedural language to manage transactions and locking. In addition, they’ll learn how to create user-defined functions, triggers, and events.
Section 5: Database administration
In this section, your students will learn a starting set of skills for becoming a database administrator (DBA). First, they’ll learn how to secure, back up, and restore a MySQL database that’s running on a local server. Then, they’ll learn how to perform most of the same skills on a MySQL database that’s running remotely on Amazon’s cloud computing platform, AWS.
Book features
Here are three features of this book that will help your students learn faster and better.
It starts by showing how to query a database
Murach’s MySQL starts by showing how to query an existing database rather than showing how to create a new database. Why?
First, it’s motivating for your students to see results right away, and querying provides immediate results with just a single line of code. Second, querying an existing database helps your students gain insight into the decisions that have to be made when designing a database. As a result, learning how to query a database now makes it easier for students to learn how to design a database later.
It shows how to use MySQL Workbench
This book doesn’t assume that your students have any prior knowledge about the tools for working with a MySQL database. As a result, it recommends using MySQL Workbench because we think that’s the best tool available for working with a MySQL database. In addition, this book explains how to use Workbench as thoroughly as it explains how to write SQL statements.
It presents hundreds of real-world examples
This book contains hundreds of example SQL statements that range from the simple to the complex, and every one of them is included in the download for this book. That way, your students can quickly get the idea of how a feature works from the simple examples and also see how the feature works in the real world from the complex ones.
What's new in this edition
- We added a new chapter on hosting a MySQL database in the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- We streamlined chapters 1 and 2 to help your students get started more quickly.
- We streamlined chapter 19 to help your students learn how to backup and restore databases more easily.
- We updated this book to MySQL 8.0.34, removing deprecated data types and functions and adding new statement options and clauses.
What courses this book can be used for
- As the main text for any SQL course.
- As a supplementary text for a traditional database course.
What software your students need
Although you can use this book with most versions of MySQL, we recommend that you use:
- MySQL Community Server 8.0 or higher
- MySQL Workbench 8.0 or higher
This software can be downloaded for free from MySQL’s website, and appendixes A (Windows) and B (macOS) provide complete instructions for downloading and installing it.
What people say about this book
"This book was the text in my Database Concepts class, and I am so thankful that it was! It provided excellent explanations and examples of database syntax, queries, subqueries, design, etc. It spent sufficient time breaking down difficult topics into the basic elements and then built off of those concepts to bring everything together. The book was reasonably priced too! I aced the class and decided to take more database classes because of this book."
- Posted at an online bookseller
"This is a fantastic book! It has more info than books at twice the cost, but it presents that info in a concise, digestible manner. I wish I had a resource like this when I was first starting with MySQL."
- Eric Chernoff, Team Leader, Cisco Systems
"I like this style of presentation; it’s not chatty and discursive, but it covers the material in a detailed way with good examples that you can refer to without wading through descriptions."
- Sue Gee, (Kay Ewbank) I Programmer
"I was amazed at how much information was packed into this book. The style of the book made it really easy to read and understand the information.”
- Paul Turpin, Southeastern Inter-Relational Database Users Group
"One thing I enjoyed is that the book is well-indexed, and the material itself is concise, with stand-alone, real-world examples. It’s not theoretical, it’s practical, and presents topics in a friendly style that can be consumed painlessly."
- Posted at an online bookseller
"If you ever want to learn to use MySQL, write SQL queries, create database elements, then this is the book to pick up. Rating: 10 Horseshoes."
- Review by Mohamed Sanaulla, JavaRanch.com
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Section 1 An introduction to MySQL
Chapter 1 An introduction to relational databases
An introduction to client/server systems
The hardware components of a client/server system
The software components of a client/server system
Other client/server architectures
An introduction to the relational database model
How a table is organized
How tables are related
How columns are defined
How to read a database diagram
An introduction to SQL and SQL-based systems
A brief history of SQL
A comparison of four relational databases
The SQL statements
An introduction to the SQL statements
How to work with database objects
How to query a single table
How to join data from two or more tables
How to add, update, and delete data in a table
SQL coding guidelines
Chapter 2 How to use MySQL Workbench and other development tools
An introduction to MySQL Workbench
The Home page of MySQL Workbench
How to open a database connection
How to view the status of the database server
How to navigate through the database objects
How to view and edit the data for a table
How to view and edit the column definitions for a table
How to use MySQL Workbench to run SQL statements
How to enter and execute a SQL statement
How to handle syntax errors
How to open and save SQL scripts
How to enter and execute SQL scripts
How to use the MySQL Reference Manual
How to view the manual
How to look up information
How to use the MySQL Command Line Client
How to start and stop the MySQL Command Line Client
How to use the MySQL Command Line Client to work with a database
Chapter 3 How to retrieve data from a single table
An introduction to the SELECT statement
The basic syntax of the SELECT statement
SELECT statement examples
How to code the SELECT clause
How to code column specifications
How to name the columns in a result set using aliases
How to code arithmetic expressions
How to use the CONCAT function to join strings
How to use functions with strings, dates, and numbers
How to test expressions by coding statements without FROM clauses
How to eliminate duplicate rows
How to code the WHERE clause
How to use the comparison operators
How to use the AND, OR, and NOT logical operators
How to use the IN operator
How to use the BETWEEN operator
How to use the LIKE and REGEXP operators
How to use the IS NULL clause
How to code the ORDER BY clause
How to sort by a column name
How to sort by an alias, expression, or column number
How to code the LIMIT clause
How to limit the number of rows
How to return a range of rows
Chapter 4 How to retrieve data from two or more tables
How to work with inner joins
How to code an inner join
How to use table aliases
How to join to a table in another database
How to use compound join conditions
How to use a self-join
How to join more than two tables
How to use the implicit inner join syntax
How to work with outer joins
How to code an outer join
Outer join examples
Other skills for working with joins
How to join tables with the USING keyword
How to join tables with the NATURAL keyword
How to use cross joins
How to work with unions
How to code a union
A union that combines result sets from different tables
A union that combines result sets from the same tables
A union that simulates a full outer join
Chapter 5 How to insert, update, and delete data
How to create test tables
How to create the tables for this book
How to create a copy of a table
How to insert new rows
How to insert a single row
How to insert multiple rows
How to insert default values and null values
How to use a subquery in an INSERT statement
How to update existing rows
How to update rows
How to use a subquery in an UPDATE statement
How to delete existing rows
How to delete rows
How to use a subquery in a DELETE statement
Section 2 More SQL skills as you need them
Chapter 6 How to code summary queries
How to work with aggregate functions
How to code aggregate functions
Queries that use aggregate functions
How to group and summarize data
How to code the GROUP BY and HAVING clauses
Queries that use the GROUP BY and HAVING clauses
How the HAVING clause compares to the WHERE clause
How to code compound search conditions
How to use the WITH ROLLUP operator
How to use the GROUPING function
How to code aggregate window functions
How the aggregate window functions work
How to use frames
How to use named windows
Chapter 7 How to code subqueries
An introduction to subqueries
Where to code subqueries
When to use subqueries
How to code subqueries in the WHERE clause
How to use the IN operator
How to use the comparison operators
How to use the ALL keyword
How to use the ANY and SOME keywords
How to code correlated subqueries
How to use the EXISTS operator
How to code subqueries in other clauses
How to code subqueries in the HAVING clause
How to code subqueries in the SELECT clause
How to code subqueries in the FROM clause
How to work with complex queries
A complex query that uses subqueries
A procedure for building complex queries
How to work with common table expressions
How to code a CTE
How to code a recursive CTE
Chapter 8 How to work with data types
The data types
Overview
The character types
The integer types
The fixed-point and floating-point types
The date and time types
The ENUM and SET types
The binary types
The large object types
How to convert data
How implicit data conversion works
How to convert data using the CAST and CONVERT functions
How to convert data using the FORMAT and CHAR functions
Chapter 9 How to use functions
How to work with string data
A summary of the string functions
Examples that use string functions
How to sort by a string column that contains numbers
How to parse a string
How to work with numeric data
How to use the numeric functions
How to search for floating-point numbers
How to work with date/time data
How to get the current date and time
How to parse dates and times with date/time functions
How to parse dates and times with the EXTRACT function
How to format dates and times
How to perform calculations on dates and times
How to search for a date
How to search for a time
Other functions you should know about
How to use the CASE function
How to use the IF, IFNULL, and COALESCE functions
How to use the regular expression functions
How to use the ranking functions
How to use the analytic functions
Section 3 Database design and implementation
Chapter 10 How to design a database
How to design a data structure
The basic steps for designing a data structure
How to identify the data elements
How to subdivide the data elements
How to identify the tables and assign columns
How to identify the primary and foreign keys
How to enforce the relationships between tables
How normalization works
How to identify the columns to be indexed
How to normalize a data structure
The seven normal forms
How to apply the first normal form
How to apply the second normal form
How to apply the third normal form
When and how to denormalize a data structure
How to use MySQL Workbench for database design
How to open an existing EER model
How to create a new EER model
How to work with an EER model
How to work with an EER diagram
Chapter 11 How to create databases, tables, and indexes
How to work with databases
How to create and drop a database
How to select a database
How to work with tables
How to create a table
How to code a primary key constraint
How to code a foreign key constraint
How to alter the columns of a table
How to alter the constraints of a table
How to rename, truncate, and drop a table
How to work with indexes
How to create an index
How to drop an index
A script that creates a database
How to use MySQL Workbench
How to work with the columns of a table
How to work with the indexes of a table
How to work with the foreign keys of a table
How to work with character sets and collations
An introduction to character sets and collations
How to view character sets and collations
How to specify a character set and a collation
How to work with storage engines
An introduction to storage engines
How to view storage engines
How to specify a storage engine
Chapter 12 How to create views
An introduction to views
How views work
Benefits of using views
How to work with views
How to create a view
How to create an updatable view
How to use the WITH CHECK OPTION clause
How to insert or delete rows through a view
How to alter or drop a view
Section 4 Stored program development
Chapter 13 Language skills for writing stored programs
An introduction to stored programs
Four types of stored programs
A script that creates and calls a stored procedure
A summary of statements for coding stored programs
How to write procedural code
How to display data
How to declare and set variables
How to code IF statements
How to code CASE statements
How to code loops
How to use a cursor
How to declare a condition handler
How to use a condition handler
How to use multiple condition handlers
Chapter 14 How to use transactions and locking
How to work with transactions
How to commit and rollback transactions
How to work with save points
How to work with concurrency and locking
How concurrency and locking are related
The four concurrency problems that locks can prevent
How to set the transaction isolation level
How to lock selected rows
How to prevent deadlocks
Chapter 15 How to create stored procedures and functions
How to code stored procedures
How to create and call a stored procedure
How to code input and output parameters
How to set a default value for a parameter
How to validate parameters and raise errors
A stored procedure that inserts a row
How to work with user variables
How to work with prepared statements
How to drop a stored procedure
How to code stored functions
How to create and call a function
How to use function characteristics
A function that calculates balance due
How to drop a function
How to use Workbench with procedures and functions
How to view and edit stored routines
How to create stored routines
How to drop stored routines
Chapter 16 How to create triggers and events
How to work with triggers
How to create a BEFORE trigger
How to use a trigger to enforce data consistency
How to create an AFTER trigger
How to view or drop triggers
How to work with events
How to turn the event scheduler on or off
How to create an event
How to view, alter, or drop events
Section 5 Database administration
Chapter 17 An introduction to database administration
Database administration concepts
Database administrator responsibilities
Types of database files
Types of log files
How to monitor the server
How to view the server status
How to view and kill processes
How to view the status variables
How to view the system variables
How to configure the server
How to set system variables using MySQL Workbench
How to set system variables using a text editor
How to set system variables using the SET statement
How to work with logging
How to enable and disable logging
How to configure logging
How to view text-based logs
How to manage logs
Chapter 18 How to secure a database
An introduction to user accounts
An introduction to SQL statements for user accounts
A summary of privileges
The four privilege levels
The grant tables in the mysql database
How to work with users and privileges
How to create, rename, and drop users
How to specify user account names
How to grant privileges
How to view privileges
How to revoke privileges
How to change passwords
A script that creates users
How to work with roles
How to create, manage, and drop roles
A script that creates users and roles
How to use MySQL Workbench
How to work with users and privileges
How to connect as a user for testing
Chapter 19 How to backup and restore a database
How to back up and restore a database
Strategies for backing up and restoring databases
How to use Workbench to create a full backup
How to use Workbench to restore a full backup
How to execute statements in the binary log
How to use Workbench to export and import data
How to export data to a file
How to import data from a file
Chapter 20 How to host a database with AWS
How to create and configure a MySQL RDS instance
The AWS Management Console
The Amazon RDS Databases page
How to create a MySQL RDS instance
How to modify an RDS instance so it’s publicly accessible
How to add a firewall rule for your IP address
How to use MySQL Workbench with an RDS instance
How to connect to an RDS instance
How to run scripts and SQL statements against an RDS database
How to backup and restore a database instance
How to work with the built-in backup
How to create a backup plan
How to work with snapshots
How to restore a database instance
More skills for working with RDS
How to check the AWS Billing Dashboard
How to delete an RDS database
Appendices
Appendix A How to set up Windows for this book
How to install MySQL Community Server
How to start and stop the MySQL sever
How to install MySQL Workbench
How to download the files for this book
How to create the databases for this book
How to restore the databases
Appendix B How to set up macOS for this book
How to install MySQL Community Server
How to start and stop the MySQL sever
How to install MySQL Workbench
How to download the files for this book
How to create the databases for this book
How to restore the databases
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Objectives
- Help your students focus on the skills that they should master.
Test banks
- Provide a way to test comprehension.
- Can be imported to all modern LMSs.
- Are designed to test the skills described by the objectives for each chapter.
- Use only multiple-choice test questions because they have the highest validity.
Extra exercises
- Give your students a chance to gain valuable hands-on experience.
- Can be used for assessing coding skills since the solutions aren’t available to students (unlike the exercises that are printed in the book).
PowerPoint slides
- Summarize the critical information presented in the book.
- Start with the instructional objectives for each chapter.
For a detailed description of all the materials, please see the Instructor’s Summary PDF. And if you use the Canvas LMS, we also provide a Canvas course file that you can use to import all of these materials with just a few clicks.
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