MariaDB Crash Course
About this ebook
MariaDB Crash Course teaches you all you need to know to be immediately productive with MariaDB. Master trainer Ben Forta introduces all the essentials through a series of quick, easy-to-follow, hands-on lessons. Instead of belaboring database theory and relational design, Forta focuses on teaching solutions for the majority of users who simply want to interact with data.
Learn how to:
- Retrieve and sort data
- Filter data using comparisons, regular expressions, and full text search
- 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
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About the author
Ben Forta is Adobe Systems’ Director of Developer Relations and has more than 20 years experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and product marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (now in its third edition, and translated into more than a dozen languages), spinoff titles on MySQL and SQL Server T-SQL, ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and Advanced ColdFusion Application Development (both published by Adobe Press), Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes, as well as books on Flash, Java, Windows, and other subjects. He has extensive experience in database design and development, has implemented databases for several highly successful commercial software programs and Web sites, and is a frequent lecturer and columnist on Internet and database technologies. Ben lives in Oak Park, Michigan, with his wife, Marcy, and their seven children. Ben welcomes your e-mail at ben@forta.com and invites you to visit his Web site at http://forta.com/.
