Like the best-selling Perl Cookbook, MySQL Cookbook covers a lot of ground, offering programmers short, focused pieces of code and a toolbox of worked-out examples so they don't have to start from scratch. Several language APIs are available for use in multiple scenarios and situations. MySQL can be used in all the ways that Unix users, and now Mac OS X users, have come to expect. You can use MySQL to run the MySQL server and the standard MySQL Clients; write MySQL-based scripts for Perl, PHP, Python, and Java; and use MySQL-based Web scripts under Apache and Tomcat. The content has been designed to engage the reader in the process of seeing how recipes work, as well as providing an understanding of MySQL that can be applied to completely new applications and projects.