6.10 Resources

The literature on databases is very large, and so the documentation for your particular RDMS is essential. For this book, I use MySQL, but many others are suitable.

Here are a handful of basic textbooks:

• Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management, Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg (Pearson Addison Wesley)

• A First Course in Database Systems, Jeffrey Ullman (Prentice Hall)

• An Introduction to Database Systems, C.J. Date (Pearson Addison Wesley)

• MySQL, Paul DuBois (SAMS)

• The MySQL Cookbook, Paul DuBois (O'Reilly & Associates)

• MySQL and Perl for the Web, Paul DuBois (SAMS)

• Programming the Perl DBI, Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce (O'Reilly)