{"id":2173,"date":"2011-08-07T01:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2011-08-07T01:08:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T06:08:02","slug":"book-mariadb-crash-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/07\/book-mariadb-crash-course","title":{"rendered":"Book: MariaDB Crash Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=colincharles-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=0321799941\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/iframe> <strong>Exciting news &#8211; MariaDB gets its first book! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many years ago I read Ben Forta&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0672327120\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=colincharles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0672327120\">MySQL Crash Course<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0672327120&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> . It is a book targeted at beginners of MySQL. Ben has now written another book, titled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0321799941\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=colincharles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0321799941\">MariaDB Crash Course<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0321799941&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Its still targeted at beginners, and covers many of the new features that are available in MariaDB up to version 5.2. I had the pleasure of pre-reading it, and did send in lots of comments to Ben, and if implemented we&#8217;ll see some stuff in there that is current even for MariaDB 5.3, like dynamic columns and more.<\/p>\n<p>You can <strong>pre-order<\/strong> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0321799941\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=colincharles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0321799941\">MariaDB Crash Course<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0321799941&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> which goes on sale September 23 2011 for USD$29.99 (Amazon lets you save, its $19.59 now). I&#8217;m not sure if we&#8217;ll see a Kindle version or not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Book%3A%20MariaDB%20Crash%20Course&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F07%2Fbook-mariadb-crash-course&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Many years ago I read Ben Forta&#8217;s MySQL Crash Course . It is a book targeted at beginners of MySQL. Ben has now written another book, titled: MariaDB Crash Course. Its still targeted at beginners, and covers many of the new features that are available in MariaDB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Book%3A%20MariaDB%20Crash%20Course&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F07%2Fbook-mariadb-crash-course&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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The MariaDB Server original goals were to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Distributions&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2745,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/06\/12\/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-rhel7","url_meta":{"origin":2173,"position":4},"title":"MariaDB replaces MySQL in RHEL7","date":"12\/6\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Subject says its all, this is of course, very good news coming out of the Red Hat Summit. Looking forward to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. And of course, CentOS 7 and the other builds that follow. Thank you Red Hat! MariaDB replaces MySQL in RHEL 7. 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