Just to drop my $.02 in on this.. I started reading the 1st version of Pauls' MySQL book online a week or so back using my account over at 'Safari', once I read a little and decided that I was genuinely interested in this MySQL 'thing', I went over to Barnes and Noble with intentions of getting a hard copy of the 2nd edition of this book.. well.. I ended up leaving the store with a copy of 'Mastering MySQL' by Sybex instead. I returned that book yesterday and picked up the 2nd Edition of MySQL :-). I initially chose the 'Mastering MySQL' book pretty much due to one reason, and that the size of the MySQL' book was a little intimidating. But once I got home and started reading the Sybex book I realized why Pauls' book is so long, it is impossible to cover the amount of content necessary to get a good grasp for Mysql without using a lot of paper :-). The Sybex book made a lot of assumptions and didn't go into what I felt was very thorough detail on any subject (my idea is that this is a great book for the experienced DB admin), while Paul takes the time to explain each subject and every detail very thoroughly.
Thanks Paul, I just started this book but I'm already very impressed.
Thanks, I hope you find it helpful.
I agree that it would be nice were the book a bit shorter. If there is a third edition, I will probably trim the 3.22/3.23 material to an appendix or web-accessible-only addendum and make 4.0 the baseline version to keep the size down. :-)
Again.. all of this is just my $.02 and I am VERY new at all of this DB stuff
Jeff
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