The Companion Web Site
MySQL Cookbook has a companion web site that you
can visit to obtain the source code and sample data for examples
developed throughout this book:
http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-cookbook/
The main software distribution is named recipes
and you'll find many references to it throughout the
book. You can use it to save a lot of typing. For example, when you
see a CREATE TABLE statement in
the book that describes what a database table looks like,
you'll find a SQL batch file in the
tables directory of the
recipes distribution that you can use to create
the table instead of typing out the definition. Change location into
the tables directory, then execute the following
command, where filename is the name of the
containing the CREATE TABLE
statement:
% mysql cookbook < filename
If you need to specify MySQL username or password options, put them
before the database name.
For more information about the distributions, see Appendix A.
The Kitebird site also makes some of the examples from the book
available online so that you can try them out from your browser.
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