Re: Re: learning mysql

2009-03-25 Thread Haidong Ji
I second Claudio's recommendation on Paul DuBois "MySQL" 4th edition. I've followed his book and enjoyed it. Depending on your background, especially if you work predominately in Windows, I think you will need to have easy access to a *nix machine, either a physical one or virtual machines, prefer

Re: Re: learning mysql

2009-03-25 Thread claudio . nanni
Hi, I think in your case you should go for a traditional book approach to build a good background. In my opinion finding the right book is a matter of match between the kind of book and your background. My hint is to gather here 4/5 good book titles, go in a book shop take a while to run thr

Re: learning mysql

2009-03-25 Thread Olaf Stein
If you know in theory what you want to do then I recommend the certification study guide http://www.mysql.com/certification/studyguides/ olaf On 3/24/09 9:00 PM, "solarflow99" wrote: > hi, I'm looking for some advice where to learn mysql. Not being a DBA, I > have basic knowledge of database

Re: learning mysql

2009-03-25 Thread George Larson
I'm quite a distance from the best person to answer this question but MySQL has weekly webinars and there are a ton of good tutorials on the web. I started with WAMP (LAMP, MAMP and XAMP are suitable alternatives) and just started reading tutorials. Then I went to the local discount store and got