Jason Gerner currently spends his days working as a web developer in Cincinnati and burns free time complaining about lack of support for web standards and abusing XML. He can often be found lurking in the PHPBuilder.com discussion forums, where he is a moderator.

Elizabeth Naramore earned her B.S. in Organizational Behavior from Miami University (Ohio) and has been developing websites since 1997. Her main focus has been on PHP/MySQL, e-commerce, and freelance writing and teaching. Her writing can be seen in PHPBuilder.com and International PHP Magazine. She is a proud member of OINK-PUG (Ohio, Indiana, Northern Kentucky PHP Users Group) and she lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and two small children. After graduating from the University of Auckland with a mathematics degree no one was interested in,

Morgan L. Owens knocked around the IT industry, becoming a backend web developer and programmer for web-based applications for both intranet and Internet environments. He still lives in Auckland but suggests that for the right career he might?????might?????consider moving.

Matt Warden has been developing web-based applications for over six years. His work has primarily focused on designing and implementing LAMP applications for other businesses to use internally to increase productivity. Recently, Matt has been using AJAX to offer a web-based alternative to productivity gains typically only available with native desktop solutions. Currently, Matt is a lead developer at Signal US Communications in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition by Michael Kofler
Publisher: Apress; 3rd edition (September 23, 2005)
784 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 1590595351

The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition is the latest revision to Michael Kofler?????s popular comprehensive book on the world?????s most popular open source database server. Updated to reflect the changes in MySQL version 5, the most significant update in the product?????s history, readers are exposed to MySQL?????s impressive array of new features including views, stored procedures, triggers, spatial data types, and more. Novice and intermediate users alike will benefit from extensive coverage of core MySQL features such as user administration, basic and advanced querying, and security. Readers are also introduced to several standard and third-party tools such as the MySQL Administrator, Query Browser, and popular PHPMyAdmin tool. Acknowledging MySQLs huge popularity when used in conjunction with APIs, Michael devotes substantial coverage talking to MySQL via languages like PHP, Perl, Java, C, and C#.

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