Articles and tutorials regarding MySQL http://www.troobloo.com/tech/mysql.shtml en-us http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-and-BLOBs/ ( Page 1 of 6 ) One of MySQL's strengths is its use of Binary Large Object (BLOB) columns. These columns store unprocessed binary data, typically files, that can be retrieved and manipulated like the other common datatypes. The difficulty comes in accessing the BLOB column in VB. Prior to ADO 2.5, the only way to move data in and out of a MySQL BLOB column using Visual Basic was to use the appendchunk and getchunk methods. With ADO 2.5, the stream object has been added, greatly... http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/MySQL/Two-Lessons-in-ASP-and-MySQL/ ( Page 1 of 4 ) ASP and MySQL are designed and distributed with completely different rationale, not to mention by two very different companies. But there is a good chance that you may want these two technologies for your dynamic application, in which case you need them to 'talk' to each other. One major obstacle to this could be that they differ in their handling of dates and times. This article will show you two functions you can implement to allow them to communicate peacefully,... http://www.aspdev.org/articles/asp-mysql-connect/ MySQL is a perfect database solution for small to medium websites. If your backend MySQL database is well optimized and properly structured it can serve thousands of visitors daily, without degrading your server performance. In this article I'll show you how to connect to MySQL database from ASP. You will have to install MySQL ODBC Driver-MyODBC 3.51 if you don't have it on your server yet. You can download it here: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-myodbc-3.51.html <% Dim sConnection,... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000705.php3 Tim Perdue Which database do I use: Postgres or MySQL? This age-old question has plagued developers for, what, at least a couple years now. I've used both databases extensively (MySQL for about one year and Postgres for about 2 years) and was curious if the performance differences between the two were as stark as the MySQL website suggests. I had actually benchmarked the two databases back in September 1999 when we were starting to lay the groundwork for SourceForge. At the time, the... http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/2206821 By John W. Horn PhD Go to page: 1 2 Next What is MySQL? The MySQL database is an extremely fast, stable open source database with over 4 million installations around the world. In fact it is the most popular open source database in the world. One major point makes it unlike other open source databases, MySQL has a corporate side (MySQL AB). MySQL AB is a working corporation founded in 1995 it continues to develop upgrades to the software along with the open source community. Through its... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ian20050119.php3 By Ian Gilfillan Overview Last month we looked at MySQL Administrator , this month I try out another of the MySQL tools: MySQL Query Browser. One nice thing about writing a regular monthly column (or a book!) is that it is an incentive to try out new tools I may not use in the work environment. I can avoid nappy-changing duties at home by saying I am working hard to earn enough for those same nappies, rather than just trying out the tool for the fun of it! Finding new topics can be... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/gillfillan20041221.php3 By Ian Gilfillan Overview On the 1st December, 2004, MySQL AB released a new version of MySQL Administrator (version 1.0.17). I had not previously used this tool, but with some time on my hands and the work crisis averted thanks to the installation of our new database server, I thought I would see how it shapes up. Since we use PHP as a scripting language, we have always used phpMyAdmin , but the web interface can be frustratingly slow. MySQL Administrator is installed on your client,... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/07/11/MySQLtips.html by George Reese , coauthor of Managing & Using MySQL, 2nd Edition 07/11/2002 MySQL is a complex piece of software that may seem overwhelming when you're first trying to learn it. This article describes a set of best practices for MySQL administrators, architects, and developers that should help in the security, maintenance, and performance of a MySQL installation. 1. Set a password for the "root" user and then rename the user. The first thing you should do with a clean MySQL install is... http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/2235521 By John W. Horn PhD Of all the positive things that MySQL brings to the table, probably the most overlooked is multiple table types. This facet of the application is overlooked as a feature and more importantly is overlooked at design time. MySQL has six distinct table types. MyISAM MERGE ISAM HEAP InnoDB BDB or BerkeleyDB Tables Finding a transaction table that's just my type Two of these table types currently support transactions. Transactions give the user greater control when... http://www.developerfusion.com/show/3998/ by Gez Lemon Read Comments Rate this resource Viewed 317 times Rating: 2 users 4 out of 5 Next > Released in January 1998, MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). It's based around the Structured Query Language (SQL), and is best for managing the content of the database as opposed to transactions, as MySQL does not support COMMIT or ROLLBACK. One of the biggest drawbacks of MySQL is it's lack of support for referential integrity, no stored procedures, no... http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020807.htm By Ken Fraser Rating: 4.4 out of 5 Rate this article email this article to a colleague suggest an article Introduction MySQL is a relational database created by MySQL AB and available for free under GPL. Most of you have probably heard of MySQL, and many may have written it off as being a UNIX-only product or doubted the ability and functionality of a piece of "free" software. Over the past couple of years, MySQL has gained enormous popularity in the Web development world, and it is now... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/insane20030214.php3 by Insanely Great This article discusses a solution to bring two remote MySQL databases in Sync with each other using a Free MySQL Admin Tool called SQLyog. You can download the latest version of SQLyog at Webyog Overview As PHP/MySQL developers, we very often see ourselves working on a test server from where we need to apply the changes to the production server. This becomes a tough job if we have lot of tables; the chances of errors while propagating structural changes increases... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ritesh20021218.php3 by Insanely Great Introduction With the combination of PHP and MySQL becoming one of the defacto standards for Web development, the need for a good front end for MySQL is increasing. For many, the task of creating and manipulating MySQL databases is a daunting task. It is often difficult to master the complex commands required by the MySQL console and MySQL Admin. Luckily there is hope. Due to the ever increasing popularity of MySQL and PHP, many third party tools are being developed... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/hill20011214.php3 Jeffrey F. Hill This article helps explain how to use Macromedia Flash 5 in conjunction with PHP and a MySQL database. This demonstration will show you how to setup a simple login and registration form, then allow users to save movie clip positions and various properties in the database. When they log back in the movie clips are in the same position. For this tutorial you will have to have some basic knowledge of PHP and MySQL, hopefully you won't need much though. It is also assumed... http://www.developer.com/java/data/article.php/3417381 By Richard G. Baldwin Java Programming Notes # 662 Preface Preview Installation and Preparation of MySQL Discussion and Sample Code for JDBC Programs Run the Programs Summary Complete Program Listings Preface Purpose The purpose of this lesson is to get you beyond the initial hurdles involved in: Downloading and installing a MySQL database server. Preparing that database for use with JDBC. Writing and testing your first JDBC programs to administer the database and to manipulate the data... http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tut-hill.php By Jeffrey F. Hill January 16, 2002 Intended Audience Overview Let's Get Started - setting up the mySQL database and relevant SQL commands Useful mySQL commands Typical column types Setting up the PHP User Registration PHP used for Registration section Flash Actionscript Used for Registration User Login PHP used for Login (Login.php) Flash Actionscript used for Login Loading the Variables PHP used for Loading Variables (Load.php) Flash Actionscript used to Load the Variables into the... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tanoviceanu20000912.php3 Michael Tanoviceanu Here at Soundbreak we stream out live audio and video 24 hours a day, so it didn't take much convincing to be able to run some testing on MySQL's new replication feature. We discoverd that we could use it to keep an up to date standby database server that could handle all of the queries should the primary fail for any reason. It's not dificult to configure two servers for just such a purpose, and I'll walk through the procedure, as well as a discussion as to how you... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/florian19991014.php3 Or: How to store images directly in the sql database Florian Dittmer If you want to store binary data like images and html files directly in your MySQL database, this column is for you! I will show how you can store the data via the HTML forms "File" feature in your database and how you can access and use this data in your webproject. If you have read the article "PHP, MySQL and images" by William Samplonius here on phpbuilder.com, this might be interesting for you as William stores the... http://www.developerfusion.com/show/4596/ by Edward Tanguay Read Comments Rate this resource Viewed 58 times Rating: 0 users 0 out of 5 Next > An often overlooked combination of scripting technologies is ASP.NET with MySQL (instead of Access [slow] or SQL Server [expensive]). MySQL is a fast and popular database and you can find numerous ISPs which offer it with ASP.NET (e.g. www.discountasp.net ). If you are installing it on your own server, you need to download MySQL and install it, then run c:mysql inwinmysqladmin.exe .... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kenlin012405.php3 Kenlin Overview We very often need to import data into MySQL databases. This becomes a tough job if we don't have a reliable and easy-to-use MySQL GUI. At times, when I am working on deadlines, this job becomes frustrating and I find myself wishing I had a tool to do this job for me. I recently found Navicat, which can convert Excel spreadsheets and MS Access to MySQL databases, eliminating time-consuming data entry and the errors that may accompany it. The tool uses a Microsoft... http://www.aspdev.org/articles/asp.net-mysql-connect/ vMySQL database is a low-cost alternative to MS SQL Server database and can be used easily in web applications, including ASP.NET projects. In this article I ll explain the necessary steps to connect to MySQL from ASP.NET. We will connect to our MySQL database using ODBC .NET data provider and DSN-less connection. . Make sure you have installed the .Net Framework on your server . Download the ODBC .Net data provider and install it on your server. You can find the download here:... http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/backend/databases/tutorials/tutorial2.html by Jay Greenspan Jay Greenspan heads Trans-City , a firm that provides editorial services for high-tech companies. He is a former Webmonkey producer and the "industry thought leader" behind MySQL/PHP Database Applications , a book he wrote with Brad Bulger. He can rope a bale of hay in six seconds flat. In this tell-all tutorial, Jay Greenspan, author of MySQL Weekend Crash Course and co-author of MySQL/PHP Database Applications , starts with a tour of the basics: He answers the age-old... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/04/04/webdb.html by Hugh E. Williams , co-author of Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL 04/04/2002 The most popular platform for developing Web database applications is the open source trio of PHP, MySQL, and the Apache Web server. According to SecuritySpace and Netcraft , the Apache Web server is used at about 60 percent of Web sites; almost half of these servers have support for the PHP scripting language. PHP's popularity stems from its power and flexibility: it is easy to include PHP scripts... http://www.devx.com/dbzone/articles/renaker02/renaker02-1.asp Open-source alternative is fast, lightweight, robust and stacks up well against conventional DBs By Steve Renaker This is the second in a series of stories on free-of-charge, open-source databases, describing their various attributes and offering a comparison to more conventional products. Today : MySQL 3.23.33 MySQL AB Stockholm, Sweden Fax: +46-8-729 69 05 I n recent years, MySQL has become a very popular open-source alternative to traditional relational database management systems.... http://www.15seconds.com/issue/050407.htm By Ziran Sun Rating: 5 out of 5 Rate this article email this article to a colleague suggest an article Introduction The first part of this article illustrated how to install and configure the MySQL Database Server, install and use the MySQL Administrator, create a new database, and create and populate a new sample table with some sample data. Now that the database server is up and running, this part of the article will complete our coverage of using MySQL with ASP.NET by covering how... http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3068051 By Elizabeth Fulghum Go to page: 1 2 3 4 Next In the previous article you were introduced to the basics of PHP and MySQL. We explored some of the functions PHP provides for working with MySQL and saw how they could be used to retrieve, edit, add and delete information from a database. The functions covered in the last article are at the core of creating even the most complex database driven web site. In this article, you will learn how to pull those functions together to create a fully... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/allen20040907.php3 by Allen One of the very common questions appearing on various developer forums is that of comparing the pros and cons of MySQL and MS SQL. While comparisons have been made by many, mostly on technical issues, I personally find that they are difficult to compare, especially regarding their performance. It is not true that MS SQL is better than MySQL or vice versa. Both products can be used to build stable and efficient systems. The stability and effectiveness of your databases vitally... http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-yank.php By Kevin Yank November 27, 2001 Intended Audience Overview Learning Objectives Definitions Background Information Prerequisites A Look Back at First Principles Connecting to MySQL with PHP Sending SQL Queries with PHP Handling SELECT Result Sets Inserting Data Into the Database A Challenge Summary 6;Homework6; Solution About The Author Intended Audience This tutorial is aimed at intermediate or advanced Web designers looking to make the leap into server-side programming. You'll be... http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive265.html By Levent Camlibel Source Code: MappingObjsLC.zip This article explains how you can map database tables to C# objects. In other words, The application generates C# Class files for each table in a relational database. I have used Mysql and ODBC.NET for this project. The application only supports MySQL right now. However, it is easy to port to other databases. I will do it for the second version of this application. How you can download MySQL and MySQL ODBC driver. if you browse the web... http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-ferrara1.php By Jim Ferrara July 30, 2002 Intended Audience Overview Learning Objectives Definitions Background Information Prerequisites Synopsis Initial Ideas The Solution: Setup The Solution: Actually Doing Something More about Basic Searching Example: Basic Searching Application Advanced Boolean Searching Boolean: The Basic Technical Aspect A Basic Boolean Searching Application Resources About The Author: Intended Audience This tutorial is intended for developers using MySQL (... http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/MySQL/Creating-An-Online-Photo-Album-with-PHP-and-GD-Part-4/ ( Page 1 of 2 ) It's time to wrap things up. At the end of this part you would be quite ready to build your own photo album to show all of your friends and family. Attached at the end of this article is the support file. The last part of our back-end interface, is our main menu page. This is a simple HTML file that gives us hyperlinks to the various image-manipulating pages we ve just built: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Image... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/william19990908.php3 William Samplonius Joe's used auto sales, an average sized car yard of around 150 cars has decided to make the big leap into the new millennium. First of all they had to get themselves a nice new computer, with that new computer came the "Internet". After a few weeks of searching the internet they decided to go all out, now they wanted a web site of their own. And it just so happens that Joe's good friend knows a little HTML, three days later Joe's used auto sales was online and ready... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kenlin20040702.php3 by kenlin SSH Tunnel What Is SSH? SSH stands for Secure SHell and is typically used as an encrypted version of telnet. In a telnet session, all communications are transmitted in plain-text, allowing anyone to listen-in on your session and steal passwords and other information. Such sessions are also susceptible to session hijacking, where a malicious user takes over your session once you have authenticated. OpenSSH, the tool included with most Linux variants, is a FREE version of the... http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3514256 By Dick Wall Go to page: 1 2 Next Originally, I was planning to use this article to cover use of Java Studio Creator for simple Web apps that could be used on a mobile phone, but I realized that this and other articles I was planning to write about would require data in something a little more complete than the pointbase Java database that comes with Java Studio Creator by default. Creating database-driven apps requires a database, and that requires data. This makes it necessary to... http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/tutorials/tutorial2.html by Scott Gilbertson Scott Gilbertson is the caretaker of castagraf and luxagraf . He is still trying to cook dinner with Flash. There's always been somewhat of a disconnect between designer-types and backend-types. And we're not just talking about hairstyles, eyewear, and the contents of their bookshelves designers and programmers approach problems in different ways, and their individual plans of attack don't always jibe. Of course, you want your site to be sleek, fast, and... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/nasser20030219.php3 Ramsey Nasser Introduction Ok. Your site has recorded the data you want, now you want to display it in an easy to read format. The first method that comes to mind is simply to put the data in an HTML table. Although this is probably the easiest way out, there is a much better way of displaying your information: a graph. This was originally only possible by using sneaky tables with <tr> 's of different lengths. But now, thanks to the GD library and PHP, you can actually have a PNG or JPG... http://www.15seconds.com/issue/050210.htm By Ziran Sun Rating: 4.0 out of 5 Rate this article email this article to a colleague suggest an article Introduction Back in the days of classic ASP, if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable... http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/2203971 By Elizabeth Fulghum Go to page: 1 2 3 Next Almost every dynamic Web application eventually boils down to accessing, manipulating, and presenting information. A forum is an idea example of this type of application. Users register at the site; their information is added to the database. Someone wants to post a new message? The database is queried to validate the user and again to store the message once the user has finished writing it. Displaying each page, the forum listing, the threads... http://www.developerfusion.com/show/1751/ Author Alt-PHP-Faq MySQL supports the LIMIT keyword, which allows you to control how many rows are returned; ideal when displaying data over many pages. You can use LIMIT in your sql query like this: SELECT name FROM table LIMIT 10 if you want to get the rows between 10 and 20 do the following: SELECT name FROM table LIMIT 9, 10 For a ADO solution (with an Access / MS SQL Server database), click here . Comments Read Comments | Post Comment No one has posted a comment yet. Be the first .... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/barnum20030509.php3 Sam Barnum We all know how to fetch a row from MySQL, read the data, and save some data back. It's fairly simple and straightforward, with nothing tricky is going on behind the scenes. However, there is much to be gained by using an OOP approach to managing data in your database. This article is a sketch of how one might design an Object-Oriented approach to managing records in a database. All the logic inherent in your data can be encapsulated into discreet Record objects, which... http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/sdm0207c/ ASP, ColdFusion, JSP, PHP, Perl, Access, MSSQL, MySQL, Sybase, Oracle does your Web app framework let you take your pick? CodeCharge 2.0 respects your language and database preferences. By John Reitano Creating database-driven Web applications is easy: Just choose your favorite programming language, code some HTML template pages and write a little code to move data from the database to the Web pages and vice versa. Well, that's the theory, anyway. The reality is a bit more complex it's... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3 Tim Perdue My July Article comparing PostgreSQL and MySQL caused a stir that really surprised me. Of course, users of both databases called the tests rigged one way or the other, even though I noted that both databases had their strong points under various circumstances. All that aside, we've been running into some rather grim and serious MySQL problems on SourceForge - most of which are directly related to MySQL's table-level locking mechanism. To give us some breathing room, we've... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/php/excerpt/webdbapps_8/index.html Related Reading Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL By David Lane , Hugh E. Williams Table of Contents Index Sample Chapter by David Lane and Hugh E. Williams A fundamental characteristic of the Web is the stateless interaction between browsers and web servers. As discussed in Chapter 1, HTTP is a stateless protocol. Each HTTP request a browser sends to a web server is independent of any other request. The stateless nature of HTTP allows users to browse the Web by following... http://www.developerfusion.com/show/1734/ Author James Crowley There are no standard functions in either MySQL or MS SQL Server to return a running total for an SQL query. It is, however, relatively easy using the CROSS JOIN statement. In order to do this, use the following SQL: SELECT column_names , SUM(b. running_total_column ) AS RunningTotal FROM table_name a CROSS JOIN table_name b WHERE (b. unique_id <= a. unique_id ) GROUP BY a. unique_id ,a. running_total_column Note that the performance of this query can be improved by... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/05/09/webdb2.html by Hugh E. Williams , coauthor of Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL 05/09/2002 Web developers often need to store images, sounds, movies, and documents in a database and deliver these to users. In this article, I'll show you how to develop a simple Web database application that allows users to upload and retrieve images, but can easily be adapted to storing files of any type. To develop the application, I'll use PHP and MySQL, the most popular platform for developing Web... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/smith20010821.php3 Ericson Smith Following Tim Perdue's excellent article on the comparison between MySQL and Postgresql , I decided to take a shot at installing and using this database. For most of our work I use MySQL and will continue to do so, because of its ease of use and unrivaled select query speed, and also because there is no point in trying to mess around with production systems that already work fine. But some new projects suffered greatly from MySQL's table locking feature when I needed to... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/boutwell19991212.php3 Heath Boutwell This is documentation for installing Apache 1.3.9, PHP 3.011, Perl 5.00502 and MySQL 3.21.29, but should work with ANY recent (or more recent) versions of this software. Note if you have ActiveState for Perl installed, either uninstall it, or skip the installation section below for Perl, simply make sure the the shebang line (the first line of your Perl script) points to the path of the ActiveState file "perl.exe". See more in Step Two below. The ability to develop... http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20020227.asp By Peter A. Bromberg, Ph.D. I've seen lots of newsgroup posts from people wanting to connect to Oracle, MySql and Postgres Databases. Fortunately, there is an ODBC driver for almost every RDBMS system out there, and Microsoft has made available their ODBC .NET Driver. However, there were at least 2 versions of it before RTM came out, and there seems to be some more than a little confusion about whether it will "work" with VS.NET RTM. The short answer is, yes. You just have to get the... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/jayesh20021029.php3 Jayesh Jain Introduction If you are a great fan of PHP, you might have installed PHP on an Apache server and used MySQL as the backend on windows or a linux machine. Most of the people will develop and test their code on a windows machine till they move their work on a production machine. In this article I am going to step you through installing PHP under IIS (Internet Information Server) on Windows 2000 and use Microsoft Access as backend (in fact you could use Foxpro, SQL Server,... http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Installing-PHP-under-Windows-Further-Configuration-of-WAMP/ ( Page 1 of 4 ) In his last article, Matthew showed us how to successfully install and configure WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) to setup a development environment. In this next piece, learn how to make use of the Apache and PHP configuration files to further enhance your server needs. In the previous tutorial , your WAMP system on your home PC is best for use as a development server only. You may be able to host a personal home page or hobby page, but of course this would only be...