Steven Feuerstein & Guy Harrison 
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming [PDF ebook] 
Building High-Performance Web Applications in MySQL

The implementation of stored procedures in My SQL 5.0 a hugemilestone — one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption ofthe already extremely popular My SQL database. If you are serious aboutbuilding the web-based database applications of the future, you need toget up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work — and how tobuild them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of storedprocedure development, is a resource that no real My SQL programmer canafford to do without.In the decade since My SQL burst on the scene, it has become thedominant open source database, with capabilities and performancerivaling those of commercial RDBMS offerings like Oracle and SQLServer. Along with Linux and PHP, My SQL is at the heart of millions ofapplications. And now, with support for stored procedures, functions, and triggers in My SQL 5.0, My SQL offers the programming power neededfor true enterprise use.My SQL’s new procedural language has a straightforward syntax, making iteasy to write simple programs. But it’s not so easy to write secure, easily maintained, high-performance, and bug-free programs. Few in the My SQL world have substantial experience yet with stored procedures, but Guy Harrison and Steven Feuerstein have decades of combined expertise.In My SQL Stored Procedure Programming, they putthat hard-won experience to good use. Packed with code examples and coveringeverything from language basics to application building to advancedtuning and best practices, this highly readable book is the one-stopguide to My SQL development. It consists of four major sections:My SQL stored programming fundamentals — tutorial, basicstatements, SQL in stored programs, and error handling Building My SQL stored programs — transaction handling, built-in functions, stored functions, and triggers My SQL stored programs in applications — using storedprograms with PHP, Java, Perl, Python, and .NET (C# and VB.NET)Optimizing My SQL stored programs — security, basic andadvanced SQL tuning, optimizing stored program code, and programmingbest practices A companion web site contains many thousands of lines of code, that youcan put to use immediately.Guy Harrison is Chief Architect of Database Solutions at Quest Softwareand a frequent speaker and writer on My SQL topics. Steven Feuerstein isthe author of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, the classic reference for Oracle stored programming for more than ten years. Both have decades of experience as database developers, and between them they have authored a dozen books.