Have you ever been to the store to buy a technical book and found they are all for $50 and 600 pages long and all you want to do is figure out something simple? That is why I am writing this book.

You will not learn about binary trees, installation, backup, import or export. You will not learn about replication or clusters. You will not learn to pass any sort of certification. What you will learn are the basics about MySQL databases and how to use them. When you get done reading this book you will not be an expert but you should be able to make rational decisions and maybe even create your own databases and web applications.

This edition also has some real-word examples to show you how to write the kinds of queries you will have to write in business. Learn how to find customers, invoices, invoice totals and more.

By itself, a database is only marginally useful. In order to take full advantage of the database you will need a front end. This contains the source code to an entire web application. It is small, but shows how you use PHP and the MySQL together to write functional web applications.