Official Guide to Mini SQL 2.0 [Paperback]

Brian Jepson (Author), David J. Hughes (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471245356 | ISBN-13: 978-0471245353 | Publication Date: February 4, 1998

A complete guide to building and developing Web databases and applications with Mini SQL 2.0 Master the core features, tools, and utilities of Mini SQL 2.0

Build powerful SQL-backed intranet applications.

Develop SQL-powered Web sites using a variety of Internet programming languages, such as Java, Perl, and PHP/FI

Brian Jepson David J. Hughes

The complete insiders' guide to mastering Mini SQL

Mini SQL (mSQL) is the ideal solution for Web and intranet programmers and developers who need a fast, robust client/server database engine, but who don't need the expense or the hassles of Sybase or Oracle. In this official guide, you learn the ins and outs of mSQL 2.0 from its creator, David Hughes. He and well-known computer book author and Internet database expert, Brian Jepson, cover all the bases-from installation to applications development-with insights, tips, tricks, and techniques you won't find anywhere else.

You get an in-depth introduction to mSQL and all its core features, tools, and utilities, including W3-mSQL scripting language, msql, msqladmin, msqlimport, and msqlexport. You get real-world examples and case studies illustrating how mSQL is being used by programmers and developers worldwide. You also get clear, step-by-step guidance on:
* Making the most of all of version 2.0's hot new features, including Lite, W3-mSQL, run-time configuration, authentication, and more
* Adding dynamic content to your Web sites and intranets using Perl and PHP/FI
* Developing sophisticated GUI-based, platform-independent, networked applications with mSQL-JDBC and msqlJava.

The CD-ROM gives you:
* Mini SQL 2.0 evaluation version
* Mini SQL freeware/shareware collection
* All the mSQL code examples from the book.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

In this book, Mini SQL creator David Hughes teams with Brian Jepson to provide the official guide to Mini SQL 2.0. This in-depth look gives you all the information necessary to develop sophisticated Internet and intranet applications using the Mini SQL relational database engine. CD-ROM contains Mini SQL version 2.0.

From the Back Cover

A complete guide to building and developing Web databases and applications with Mini SQL 2.0 Master the core features, tools, and utilities of Mini SQL 2.0

Build powerful SQL-backed intranet applications.

Develop SQL-powered Web sites using a variety of Internet programming languages, such as Java, Perl, and PHP/FI

Brian Jepson David J. Hughes

The complete insiders' guide to mastering Mini SQL

Mini SQL (mSQL) is the ideal solution for Web and intranet programmers and developers who need a fast, robust client/server database engine, but who don't need the expense or the hassles of Sybase or Oracle. In this official guide, you learn the ins and outs of mSQL 2.0 from its creator, David Hughes. He and well-known computer book author and Internet database expert, Brian Jepson, cover all the bases-from installation to applications development-with insights, tips, tricks, and techniques you won't find anywhere else.

You get an in-depth introduction to mSQL and all its core features, tools, and utilities, including W3-mSQL scripting language, msql, msqladmin, msqlimport, and msqlexport. You get real-world examples and case studies illustrating how mSQL is being used by programmers and developers worldwide. You also get clear, step-by-step guidance on:
* Making the most of all of version 2.0's hot new features, including Lite, W3-mSQL, run-time configuration, authentication, and more
* Adding dynamic content to your Web sites and intranets using Perl and PHP/FI
* Developing sophisticated GUI-based, platform-independent, networked applications with mSQL-JDBC and msqlJava.

The CD-ROM gives you:
* Mini SQL 2.0 evaluation version
* Mini SQL freeware/shareware collection
* All the mSQL code examples from the book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (February 4, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471245356
• ISBN-13: 978-0471245353
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,301,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brian Jepson is an editor and writer for O'Reilly Media, Inc. He's also one of the volunteer system administrators and all-around geeks for AS220, a non-profit, unjuried arts center in Providence, RI where gallery space, darkrooms, stages, artist studios, and other resources are readily available to artists; anyone can exhibit or perform.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lack of detail and practical utility - outdone by O'Reilly, August 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Official Guide to Mini SQL 2.0 (Paperback)

The book lacks details and does not include a lot of practical examples. Much of the book is filled with countless pages of library source code that has very little use to the end user or adminstrator and should have been left out of the book and put on a CD. The August 1999 O'Reilly book (MSQL and MySQL) puts this book to shame.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars blatant errors all the way through the book, May 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Official Guide to Mini SQL 2.0 (Paperback)

I am appalled at the lack of editing this book had. I spent hours and hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong and it turns out that there are blatant errors all through the book. They include double-quotes in the very first example in the book (end of chapter one) which should be single quotes, which completely rule out the example working. Any beginner who got this book (like me) will be completely lost until someone who knows what they're doing clues them in. And what is with the blatant %*&-kissing the authors do of the people who invented various things? And ack, java, WHY so much java? This book isn't useful to beginners because of the way they completely gloss over all the basic stuff (when using INSERT INTO with a date field do you put it in quotes? oh why bother telling us, we should magically know that somehow right?) and what they DO say is factually wrong. I can't see any experts learning anything here either, they just try to cover SO much it's ridiculous and they spread themselves WAY too thin. But man, where were the editors? Didn't they try to run even the simplest code in this book before printing it? Pathetic. I feel so ripped off I can't stand it. The worst book I have ever purchased.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Errors, errors, and more errors., December 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Official Guide to Mini SQL 2.0 (Paperback)

Tthe examples put the whole book to shame, there are countless errors within the example code that prevent it from running. Some of the facts they list aren't accurate. If you must read this book get it from your local library.