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Title: Not up to the O'Reilly standard
Review: This book isn't great. The organization of the material is poor; MySQL and mSQL are mixed together confusingly. I was hoping for more of a tutorial format in the early chapters; the book leaves readers to climb the relatively steep learning curve on their own.The reference section is confusingly laid out-- there's no indication within the section whether a given page is about MySQL or mSQL, making it difficult to look up the particulars of an SQL command. Similarly, PHP and Lite are covered in the same chapter, making it difficult to tell, on any given page, which scripting language you are reading about.One bright spot: Chapter 2, on database design, is really useful and well-written. Too bad the specific technical information couldn't be as well-done.This book might be appropriate for someone with substantial prior RDBMS experience, but with the exception of Chapter 2, it is not for beginners.
