Interested in selling products online? Want to offer users customized pages? Hope to save money with automated support? If any of these rings a bell, we've got two words for you: Database it!
Tying databases to your Web site gives you a kind of power that mere gadget sites can only long for. This five-part crash course will take you, step by step, from general information about your database options to the nitty-gritty of setting up an online database.
Database pro Richard Dice first sets the scene, then leads you through all the options. He looks into the best operating systems to use for databases (Windows NT v. Linux), delves into configuring the Apache Web server, and demystifies MySQL, SQL, DDL, DML, and several other small groups of capital letters that have been known to strike fear into hearts of the uninitiated.
Dice also gives the rundown about database programming using CGI, ePerl, and DBI. He'll have you parenting your own bouncing baby database before you know it.
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