MySQL Cookbook presents solutions to some problems associated with database server MySQL. The reader has a good chance to find solutions to problems such as database queries, validation and formatting data, importing and exporting values, and using advanced features like session tracking and transactions. Paul DuBois has done a great job assembling efficient solutions to common database programming problems, and teaches his readers a lot about the MySQL API and their own servant in the process. DuBois set her cookbook recipes to be part of the problem, the solution stated simply, and solutions that are implemented in code and discussed. The reader will have a main complaint about MySQL Cookbook is that the author, in his attempt to cover various MySQL-friendly programming language, using different language in solutions to various problems of the Wall. - David Topics covered: How to create a MySQL database to do your bidding - in terms of queries, table manipulation, data formatting, transactions, and Web interfaces - through the server's command line interface database and (more importantly) through the MySQL APIs of Perl, PHP, Java, and Python.