You could try MySQL 5(it is in alpha state), which comes with stored procedures, mixing stored procedures and prepered statements could be a possibility.
About Sybex's book, haven't read it, but Paul's book (Oreilly's) is very nice. IMHO Best Regards On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 23:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, i happened to be peering into the Sybex book on Mysql4 , it was > pretty expensive about 100 AUD is it a good one ? Anyway i had reference to > be able to compile c code into Mysql to add functions into it. Is there > anyway posible to avodi doing this and add it using queries ? Let me know > thanks. -- |...........................................................| |____ _____ ____ _ |Victor Medina M | |\ \ \| ____| _ \ / \ |Linux - Java - MySQL | | \ \ \ _| | |_) / _ \ |Dpto. Sistemas - Ferreteria EPA | | / / / |___| __/ ___ \ |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/_/_/|_____|_| /_/ \_\|ext. 325 - Tél: +58-241-8507325 | | |geek by nature - linux by choice | |...........................................................|