I bought this book with office money thinking it would help me learn SQL and MySQL. Now having delved into it, I find it annoying for the following reasons:
- It says in the back it contains ample tutorial material.
This is simply not true!</li>
- The book is not written sequentially meaning you have to skip ahead several chapters in order to understand what is said at the beginning!</li>
I think that this book was poorly edited. It reads like it was cobbled together from a number of short articles.
Further more the book is a bit old, and you are far better off following the installation instructions on the mySQL site than following what is in here.
The only plus point is that the book mentions in a couple of footnotes problems that occur in some binary distributions.
I bought this book because I wanted a book on mySQL. However I have found myself using the web anyway, and the book just sits there!
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