I really like and refer to my O'Reilly books often . I now have one I will never use. This is the worst book I have seen from them. There are many technical mistakes in the examples and explanations. They even left out basic parts of the SQL commands. To add insult to disapointment the binding broke after using it only three times. I thought I was lucky seeing it on the 20% off rack.

You are much better off with the documentation that comes with MySQL.