Download or read book MySQL 5 Essentials written by Neil Smyth and published by eBookFrenzy. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to teach the basics of using the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS) to create and manage databases and is ideal for those unfamiliar with both databases in general and MySQL in particular.Topics covered include the basics of relational databases, database architecture, an overview of the MySQL administration tools, database security implementation and detailed tutorials on using SQL to create, manage and retrieve data from MySQL based databases.