Re: New - MySQL Crash Course

[Rick James]

Does the book mention "InnoDB" and BEGIN...COMMIT? Or does it quietly focus on MyISAM?

InnoDB is the preferred 'engine'; you should learn it, and transactions.

Anyway, the basics of what INSERTs and SELECTs are like is common between the engines, so most (not all) of what it is teaching is useful.

(If that book talks about a 2-column PRIMARY KEY where the second field is AUTO_INCREMENT, skip that section; it applies only to MyISAM.)

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