MySQL Advanced Topics
1h 10mAdvanced2024-03-11
Authors

Bill Weinman
Tech Advocate, Entrepreneur, Programming Expert
Course details
Get more out of the world’s most popular RDMS. Learn to take full advantage of some of the more advanced features in MySQL, including views, transactions, triggers, and stored procedures. In this course, Bill Weinman helps you take your MySQL skills to the next level. Discover how to facilitate rapid lookups with indexes, search for data in a result set provided by another select statement with subselects, and put database-intensive operations into stored functions and procedures for faster, more modular, and more efficient programming. Plus, learn how to ensure data integrity with transactions and cross-reference distributed data with foreign key constraints. These techniques allow you to create more performant and stable databases for all your development projects, from web applications to data warehouses.
Skills covered
MySQLAdvancedDatabase DevelopmentDatabase ManagementOpen SourceSoftware Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Take MySQL to the next level
- 02 - Exercise files
1. Indexes
- 03 - Why index
- 04 - Creating an index
- 05 - Showing indexes
- 06 - Dropping indexes
- 07 - Multi-column indexes
2. Views and Subqueries
- 08 - Creating a subquery
- 09 - Searching within a result set
- 10 - Creating a view
- 11 - Creating a joined view
3. Stored Routines
- 12 - About stored routines in MySQL
- 13 - Creating a stored function
- 14 - Creating a stored procedure
- 15 - Language extensions
4. Transactions
- 16 - What are transactions
- 17 - Data integrity
- 18 - Performance
5. Triggers
- 19 - Updating with triggers
- 20 - Preventing updates
- 21 - Example - Timestamps
6. Foreign Keys
- 22 - About foreign keys
- 23 - Creating foreign key constraints
- 24 - Deleting and changing foreign keys
Conclusion
- 25 - Thank you