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Creating your MySQL Database: Practical Design Tips and Techniques: A short guide for everyone on how to structure your data and set-up your MySQL database tables efficiently and easily.

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This book starts off with a real bang, working you through the logic of how you would structure your data in a MySQL database. It works through two examples, a car dealership's needs for tracking the details about particular cars and their sales, and then a simplistic schema for storing airline flight information. About halfway through this book, you feel like you're really learning a lot of information, and then the second half just seems to mainly cough out some table definitions. I can't quite put my finger on exactly what went wrong about halfway through, but that's about the point where I felt like I stopped learning from this book and was just reading the remainder of what the author wanted to get regurgitated before he hit his page limit.
You probably won't come away from reading this book with any more confidence in your ability to structure the tables of a database than before you started reading it. Some good info. Overall - disappointing.

This book was very helpful in explaining the basic concepts. It is not an exhaustive manual on how to structure databases, but instead it is a great place to start learning.

Another element that I found valuable was how the author pointed out some common pitfalls in designing databases. Those are the kinds of things that only come by experience. If I hadn't read this book, I can see that there are several of the pitfalls that I would have fallen into.

I appreciated the many examples and illustrations. For some reason this author connected with my style of learning. It was fun to read!

My summary would be that this is a great place to start learning MySQL database design. It encompasses the basics and does a very good job explaining the concepts in plain and easy to understand language.

In a nutshell, this book is pretty worthless. Potential readers would be much better off with the "MySQL Tutorial" book.