MySQL Stored Procedure Programming

MySQL Stored Procedure Programming

by Guy Harrison, Steven Feuerstein
Released March 2006
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9780596100896

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The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a hugemilestone -- one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption ofthe already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious aboutbuilding the web-based database applications of the future, you need toget up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work -- and how tobuild them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of storedprocedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer canafford to do without.

In the decade since MySQL burst on the scene, it has become thedominant open source database, with capabilities and performancerivaling those of commercial RDBMS offerings like Oracle and SQLServer. Along with Linux and PHP, MySQL is at the heart of millions ofapplications. And now, with support for stored procedures, functions,and triggers in MySQL 5.0, MySQL offers the programming power neededfor true enterprise use.

MySQL's new procedural language has a straightforward syntax, making iteasy to write simple programs. But it's not so easy to write secure,easily maintained, high-performance, and bug-free programs. Few in theMySQL world have substantial experience yet with stored procedures, butGuy Harrison and Steven Feuerstein have decades of combined expertise.

In MySQL Stored Procedure Programming, they putthat hard-won experience to good use. Packed with code examples and coveringeverything from language basics to application building to advancedtuning and best practices, this highly readable book is the one-stopguide to MySQL development. It consists of four major sections:

  • MySQL stored programming fundamentals -- tutorial, basicstatements, SQL in stored programs, and error handling
  • Building MySQL stored programs -- transaction handling,built-in functions, stored functions, and triggers
  • MySQL stored programs in applications -- using storedprograms with PHP, Java, Perl, Python, and .NET (C# and VB.NET)
  • Optimizing MySQL stored programs -- security, basic andadvanced SQL tuning, optimizing stored program code, and programmingbest practices

A companion web site contains many thousands of lines of code, that youcan put to use immediately.

Guy Harrison is Chief Architect of Database Solutions at Quest Softwareand a frequent speaker and writer on MySQL topics. Steven Feuerstein isthe author of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, the classic reference for Oracle stored programming for more than ten years. Both have decades of experience as database developers, and between them they have authored a dozen books.

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Table of contents

  1. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
  2. Advance Praise for MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
  3. Preface
    1. Objectives of This Book
    2. Structure of This Book
    3. What This Book Does Not Cover
    4. Conventions Used in This Book
    5. Which Version?
    6. Resources Available at the Book’s Web Site
    7. Using Code Examples
    8. Safari® Enabled
    9. How to Contact Us
    10. Acknowledgments
  4. I. Stored Programming Fundamentals
    1. 1. Introduction to MySQL Stored Programs
      1. 1.1. What Is a Stored Program?
        1. 1.1.1. Why Use Stored Programs?
        2. 1.1.2. A Brief History of MySQL
        3. 1.1.3. MySQL Stored Procedures, Functions, and Triggers
      2. 1.2. A Quick Tour
        1. 1.2.1. Integration with SQL
        2. 1.2.2. Control and Conditional Logic
        3. 1.2.3. Stored Functions
        4. 1.2.4. When Things Go Wrong
        5. 1.2.5. Triggers
      3. 1.3. Resources for Developers Using Stored Programs
        1. 1.3.1. Books
        2. 1.3.2. Internet Resources
      4. 1.4. Some Words of Advice for Developers
        1. 1.4.1. Don’t Be in Such a Hurry!
        2. 1.4.2. Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help
        3. 1.4.3. Take a Creative, Even Radical Approach
      5. 1.5. Conclusion
    2. 2. MySQL Stored Programming Tutorial
      1. 2.1. What You Will Need
      2. 2.2. Our First Stored Procedure
        1. 2.2.1. Creating the Procedure
        2. 2.2.2. Creating the Procedure Using the MySQL Query Browser
      3. 2.3. Variables
      4. 2.4. Parameters
        1. 2.4.1. Parameter Modes
      5. 2.5. Conditional Execution
      6. 2.6. Loops
      7. 2.7. Dealing with Errors
      8. 2.8. Interacting with the Database
        1. 2.8.1. SELECTing INTO Local Variables
        2. 2.8.2. Using Cursors
        3. 2.8.3. Returning Result Sets from Stored Procedures
        4. 2.8.4. Embedding Non-SELECTs
      9. 2.9. Calling Stored Programs from Stored Programs
      10. 2.10. Putting It All Together
      11. 2.11. Stored Functions
      12. 2.12. Triggers
      13. 2.13. Calling a Stored Procedure from PHP
      14. 2.14. Conclusion
    3. 3. Language Fundamentals
      1. 3.1. Variables, Literals, Parameters, and Comments
        1. 3.1.1. Variables
        2. 3.1.2. Literals
        3. 3.1.3. Rules for Variable Names
        4. 3.1.4. Assigning Values to Variables
        5. 3.1.5. Parameters
        6. 3.1.6. User Variables
        7. 3.1.7. Comments
      2. 3.2. Operators
        1. 3.2.1. Mathematical Operators
        2. 3.2.2. Comparison Operators
        3. 3.2.3. Logical Operators
        4. 3.2.4. Bitwise Operators
      3. 3.3. Expressions
      4. 3.4. Built-in Functions
      5. 3.5. Data Types
        1. 3.5.1. String Data Types
          1. 3.5.1.1. The ENUM data type
          2. 3.5.1.2. The SET data type
        2. 3.5.2. Numeric Data Types
        3. 3.5.3. Date and Time Data Types
        4. 3.5.4. TEXT and BLOB Data Types
      6. 3.6. MySQL 5 “Strict” Mode
        1. 3.6.1. Stored Program Behavior and Strict Mode
        2. 3.6.2. Program Examples
      7. 3.7. Conclusion
    4. 4. Blocks, Conditional Statements, and Iterative Programming
      1. 4.1. Block Structure of Stored Programs
        1. 4.1.1. Structure of a Block
        2. 4.1.2. Nested Blocks
      2. 4.2. Conditional Control
        1. 4.2.1. The IF Statement
          1. 4.2.1.1. TRUE or FALSE (or neither)?
          2. 4.2.1.2. Simple IF-THEN combinations
          3. 4.2.1.3. IF-THEN-ELSE statements
          4. 4.2.1.4. IF-THEN-ELSEIF-ELSE statements
        2. 4.2.2. The CASE Statement
          1. 4.2.2.1. Simple CASE statement
          2. 4.2.2.2. “Searched” CASE statement
        3. 4.2.3. IF Versus CASE
      3. 4.3. Iterative Processing with Loops
        1. 4.3.1. LOOP Statement
        2. 4.3.2. LEAVE Statement
        3. 4.3.3. ITERATE Statement
        4. 4.3.4. REPEAT ... UNTIL Loop
        5. 4.3.5. WHILE Loop
        6. 4.3.6. Nested Loops
        7. 4.3.7. Parting Comments on Loops
      4. 4.4. Conclusion
    5. 5. Using SQL in Stored Programming
      1. 5.1. Using Non-SELECT SQL in Stored Programs
      2. 5.2. Using SELECT Statements with an INTO Clause
      3. 5.3. Creating and Using Cursors
        1. 5.3.1. Defining a Cursor
        2. 5.3.2. Cursor Statements
        3. 5.3.3. Fetching a Single Row from a Cursor
        4. 5.3.4. Fetching an Entire Result Set
        5. 5.3.5. Types of Cursor Loops
        6. 5.3.6. Nested Cursor Loops
        7. 5.3.7. Exiting the Cursor Loop Prematurely
        8. 5.3.8. Cursor Error Conditions
      4. 5.4. Using Unbounded SELECT Statements
        1. 5.4.1. Retrieving the Result Sets in the Calling Program
        2. 5.4.2. Returning Result Sets to Another Stored Procedure
      5. 5.5. Performing Dynamic SQL with Prepared Statements
      6. 5.6. Handling SQL Errors: A Preview
      7. 5.7. Conclusion
    6. 6. Error Handling
      1. 6.1. Introduction to Error Handling
        1. 6.1.1. A Simple First Example
        2. 6.1.2. Handling Last Row Conditions
      2. 6.2. Condition Handlers
        1. 6.2.1. Types of Handlers
        2. 6.2.2. Handler Conditions
        3. 6.2.3. Handler Examples
        4. 6.2.4. Handler Precedence
        5. 6.2.5. Scope of Condition Handlers
      3. 6.3. Named Conditions
      4. 6.4. Missing SQL:2003 Features
        1. 6.4.1. Directly Accessing SQLCODE or SQLSTATE
        2. 6.4.2. Creating Your Own Exceptions with the SIGNAL Statement
        3. 6.4.3. Emulating the SIGNAL Statement
      5. 6.5. Putting It All Together
      6. 6.6. Handling Stored Program Errors in the Calling Application
        1. 6.6.1. PHP
        2. 6.6.2. Perl
        3. 6.6.3. Java/JDBC
        4. 6.6.4. Python
        5. 6.6.5. C# .NET
        6. 6.6.6. Visual Basic .NET
      7. 6.7. Conclusion
  5. II. Stored Program Construction
    1. 7. Creating and Maintaining Stored Programs
      1. 7.1. Creating Stored Programs
        1. 7.1.1. Editing Stored Programs Using a System Editor
        2. 7.1.2. Using the MySQL Query Browser
        3. 7.1.3. Using Third-Party Tools
        4. 7.1.4. Handling Semicolons in Stored Program Code
      2. 7.2. Editing an Existing Stored Program
        1. 7.2.1. Editing a Program in Place
        2. 7.2.2. Maintaining Stored Programs in External Files
      3. 7.3. SQL Statements for Managing Stored Programs
        1. 7.3.1. CREATE PROCEDURE
        2. 7.3.2. CREATE FUNCTION
        3. 7.3.3. CREATE TRIGGER
        4. 7.3.4. ALTER PROCEDURE/FUNCTION
        5. 7.3.5. DROP PROCEDURE/FUNCTION/TRIGGER
      4. 7.4. Getting Information About Stored Programs
        1. 7.4.1. SHOW PROCEDURE/FUNCTION STATUS
        2. 7.4.2. SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE/FUNCTION
        3. 7.4.3. INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES Table
        4. 7.4.4. INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TRIGGERS Table
      5. 7.5. Conclusion
    2. 8. Transaction Management
      1. 8.1. Transactional Support in MySQL
        1. 8.1.1. Isolation Levels
        2. 8.1.2. Transaction Management Statements
      2. 8.2. Defining a Transaction
      3. 8.3. Working with Savepoints
      4. 8.4. Transactions and Locks
        1. 8.4.1. Situations in Which Locks Arise
        2. 8.4.2. Deadlocks
        3. 8.4.3. Lock Timeouts
        4. 8.4.4. Optimistic and Pessimistic Locking Strategies
          1. 8.4.4.1. Pessimistic locking strategy
          2. 8.4.4.2. Optimistic locking strategy
          3. 8.4.4.3. Choosing between strategies
      5. 8.5. Transaction Design Guidelines
      6. 8.6. Conclusion
    3. 9. MySQL Built-in Functions
      1. 9.1. String Functions
        1. 9.1.1. ASCII
        2. 9.1.2. CHAR
        3. 9.1.3. CHARSET
        4. 9.1.4. CONCAT
        5. 9.1.5. CONCAT_WS
        6. 9.1.6. INSERT
        7. 9.1.7. INSTR
        8. 9.1.8. LCASE
        9. 9.1.9. LEFT
        10. 9.1.10. LENGTH
        11. 9.1.11. LOAD_FILE
        12. 9.1.12. LOCATE
        13. 9.1.13. LPAD
        14. 9.1.14. LTRIM
        15. 9.1.15. REPEAT
        16. 9.1.16. REPLACE
        17. 9.1.17. RPAD
        18. 9.1.18. RTRIM
        19. 9.1.19. STRCMP
        20. 9.1.20. SUBSTRING
        21. 9.1.21. TRIM
        22. 9.1.22. UCASE
        23. 9.1.23. Other String Functions
      2. 9.2. Numeric Functions
        1. 9.2.1. ABS
        2. 9.2.2. BIN
        3. 9.2.3. CEILING
        4. 9.2.4. CONV
        5. 9.2.5. FLOOR
        6. 9.2.6. FORMAT
        7. 9.2.7. HEX
        8. 9.2.8. LEAST
        9. 9.2.9. MOD
        10. 9.2.10. POWER
        11. 9.2.11. RAND
        12. 9.2.12. ROUND
        13. 9.2.13. SIGN
        14. 9.2.14. SQRT
        15. 9.2.15. Other Numeric Functions
      3. 9.3. Date and Time Functions
        1. 9.3.1. ADDTIME
        2. 9.3.2. CONVERT_TZ
        3. 9.3.3. CURRENT_DATE
        4. 9.3.4. CURRENT_TIME
        5. 9.3.5. CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
        6. 9.3.6. DATE
        7. 9.3.7. DATE_ADD
        8. 9.3.8. DATE_FORMAT
        9. 9.3.9. DATE_SUB
        10. 9.3.10. DATEDIFF
        11. 9.3.11. DAY
        12. 9.3.12. DAYNAME
        13. 9.3.13. DAYOFWEEK
        14. 9.3.14. DAYOFYEAR
        15. 9.3.15. EXTRACT
        16. 9.3.16. GET_FORMAT
        17. 9.3.17. MAKEDATE
        18. 9.3.18. MAKETIME
        19. 9.3.19. MONTHNAME
        20. 9.3.20. NOW
        21. 9.3.21. SEC_TO_TIME
        22. 9.3.22. STR_TO_DATE
        23. 9.3.23. TIME_TO_SEC
        24. 9.3.24. TIMEDIFF
        25. 9.3.25. TIMESTAMP
        26. 9.3.26. TIMESTAMPADD
        27. 9.3.27. TIMESTAMPDIFF
        28. 9.3.28. WEEK
        29. 9.3.29. WEEKDAY
        30. 9.3.30. YEAR
        31. 9.3.31. YEARWEEK
        32. 9.3.32. Other Date and Time Functions
      4. 9.4. Other Functions
        1. 9.4.1. BENCHMARK
        2. 9.4.2. COALESCE
        3. 9.4.3. CURRENT_USER
        4. 9.4.4. DATABASE
        5. 9.4.5. GET_LOCK
        6. 9.4.6. IFNULL
        7. 9.4.7. INTERVAL
        8. 9.4.8. IS_FREE_LOCK
        9. 9.4.9. ISNULL
        10. 9.4.10. NULLIF
        11. 9.4.11. RELEASE_LOCK
        12. 9.4.12. SESSION_USER
        13. 9.4.13. SYSTEM_USER
        14. 9.4.14. USER
        15. 9.4.15. UUID
        16. 9.4.16. VERSION
      5. 9.5. Conclusion
    4. 10. Stored Functions
      1. 10.1. Creating Stored Functions
        1. 10.1.1. The RETURN Statement
        2. 10.1.2. Parameters to Stored Functions
        3. 10.1.3. The DETERMINISTIC and SQL Clauses
      2. 10.2. SQL Statements in Stored Functions
      3. 10.3. Calling Stored Functions
      4. 10.4. Using Stored Functions in SQL
        1. 10.4.1. Using SQL in Stored Functions
      5. 10.5. Conclusion
    5. 11. Triggers
      1. 11.1. Creating Triggers
        1. 11.1.1. Referring to Column Values Within the Trigger
        2. 11.1.2. Triggering Actions
        3. 11.1.3. BEFORE and AFTER Triggers
      2. 11.2. Using Triggers
        1. 11.2.1. Maintaining Derived Data
        2. 11.2.2. Implementing Logging
        3. 11.2.3. Validating Data with Triggers
      3. 11.3. Trigger Overhead
      4. 11.4. Conclusion
  6. III. Using MySQL Stored Programs in Applications
    1. 12. Using MySQL Stored Programs in Applications
      1. 12.1. The Pros and Cons of Stored Programs in Modern Applications
      2. 12.2. Advantages of Stored Programs
        1. 12.2.1. They Enhance Database Security
        2. 12.2.2. They Provide a Mechanism for Data Abstraction
        3. 12.2.3. They Reduce Network Traffic
        4. 12.2.4. They Allow for Common Routines Across Multiple Application Types
        5. 12.2.5. They Facilitate Division of Duties
        6. 12.2.6. They May Provide Portability
      3. 12.3. Disadvantages of Stored Programs
        1. 12.3.1. They Can Be Computationally Inferior
        2. 12.3.2. They Can Lead to Logic Fragmentation
        3. 12.3.3. They Do Not Provide Portability
      4. 12.4. Calling Stored Programs from Application Code
        1. 12.4.1. Preparing a Stored Program Call for Execution
        2. 12.4.2. Registering Parameters
        3. 12.4.3. Setting Output Parameters
        4. 12.4.4. Executing the Stored Program
        5. 12.4.5. Retrieving Result Sets
        6. 12.4.6. Retrieving Output Parameters
        7. 12.4.7. Closing or Re-Executing the Stored Program
        8. 12.4.8. Calling Stored Functions
      5. 12.5. Conclusion
    2. 13. Using MySQL Stored Programs with PHP
      1. 13.1. Options for Using MySQL with PHP
      2. 13.2. Using PHP with the mysqli Extension
        1. 13.2.1. Enabling the mysqli Extension
        2. 13.2.2. Connecting to MySQL
        3. 13.2.3. Checking for Errors
        4. 13.2.4. Executing a Simple Non-SELECT Statement
        5. 13.2.5. Retrieving a Result Set
        6. 13.2.6. Managing Transactions
        7. 13.2.7. Using Prepared Statements
        8. 13.2.8. Retrieving Result Sets from Prepared Statements
        9. 13.2.9. Getting Result Set Metadata
        10. 13.2.10. Processing a Dynamic Result Set
        11. 13.2.11. Calling Stored Programs with mysqli
        12. 13.2.12. Handling Output Parameters
        13. 13.2.13. Retrieving Multiple Result Sets
      3. 13.3. Using MySQL with PHP Data Objects
        1. 13.3.1. Connecting to MySQL
        2. 13.3.2. Executing a Simple Non-SELECT Statement
        3. 13.3.3. Catching Errors
        4. 13.3.4. Managing Transactions
        5. 13.3.5. Issuing a One-Off Query
        6. 13.3.6. Using Prepared Statements
        7. 13.3.7. Binding Parameters to a Prepared Statement
        8. 13.3.8. Getting Result Set Metadata
        9. 13.3.9. Processing a Dynamic Result Set
        10. 13.3.10. Calling Stored Programs with PDO
        11. 13.3.11. Binding Input Parameters to Stored Programs
        12. 13.3.12. Handling Multiple Result Sets
        13. 13.3.13. Handling Output Parameters
        14. 13.3.14. A Complete Example
      4. 13.4. Conclusion
    3. 14. Using MySQL Stored Programs with Java
      1. 14.1. Review of JDBC Basics
        1. 14.1.1. Installing the Driver and Configuring Your IDE
        2. 14.1.2. Registering the Driver and Connecting to MySQL
        3. 14.1.3. Issuing a Non-SELECT Statement
        4. 14.1.4. Issuing a SELECT and Retrieving a Result Set
        5. 14.1.5. Getting Result Set Metadata
        6. 14.1.6. Using Prepared Statements
        7. 14.1.7. Handling Transactions
        8. 14.1.8. Handling Errors
      2. 14.2. Using Stored Programs in JDBC
        1. 14.2.1. Using the CallableStatement Interface
        2. 14.2.2. Registering OUT Variables
        3. 14.2.3. Supplying Input Parameters
        4. 14.2.4. Executing the Procedure
        5. 14.2.5. Retrieving a Result Set
        6. 14.2.6. Retrieving Multiple Result Sets
        7. 14.2.7. Dynamically Processing Result Sets
        8. 14.2.8. Retrieving Output Parameter Values
      3. 14.3. Stored Programs and J2EE Applications
        1. 14.3.1. Using Stored Programs Within Java Servlets
        2. 14.3.2. Using Stored Programs from EJB
      4. 14.4. Using Stored Procedures with Hibernate
        1. 14.4.1. Hibernate Support for MySQL Stored Procedures
        2. 14.4.2. Using a Stored Procedure to Load an Object
        3. 14.4.3. Hibernate Queries
        4. 14.4.4. Using Stored Procedures for Persistence
      5. 14.5. Using Stored Procedures with Spring
      6. 14.6. Conclusion
    4. 15. Using MySQL Stored Programs with Perl
      1. 15.1. Review of Perl DBD::mysql Basics
        1. 15.1.1. Installing DBD::mysql
          1. 15.1.1.1. Installing DBD::mysql on Linux or Unix
          2. 15.1.1.2. Installing DBD::mysql on Windows
        2. 15.1.2. Connecting to MySQL
          1. 15.1.2.1. Connection attributes
        3. 15.1.3. Handling Errors
        4. 15.1.4. Issuing a Simple One-off Statement
        5. 15.1.5. Preparing a Statement for Reuse
        6. 15.1.6. Using Bind Variables
        7. 15.1.7. Issuing a Query and Retrieving Results
        8. 15.1.8. There’s More Than One Way To Do It
          1. 15.1.8.1. fetchrow_arrayref method
          2. 15.1.8.2. fetchrow_hashref method
          3. 15.1.8.3. fetchall_arrayref method
          4. 15.1.8.4. dump_results method
          5. 15.1.8.5. bind_col and fetch methods
        9. 15.1.9. Getting Result Set Metadata
        10. 15.1.10. Performing Transaction Management
      2. 15.2. Executing Stored Programs with DBD::mysql
        1. 15.2.1. Handling Multiple Result Sets
        2. 15.2.2. Handling Dynamic Result Sets
        3. 15.2.3. Handling Output Variables
        4. 15.2.4. A Complete Example
      3. 15.3. Conclusion
    5. 16. Using MySQL Stored Programs with Python
      1. 16.1. Installing the MySQLdb Extension
      2. 16.2. MySQLdb Basics
        1. 16.2.1. Creating a Connection
        2. 16.2.2. Handling Exceptions
        3. 16.2.3. Executing a Simple Statement
        4. 16.2.4. Passing Parameters to a Statement
        5. 16.2.5. Retrieving Rows from a Query
        6. 16.2.6. Managing Transactions
        7. 16.2.7. Getting Metadata
        8. 16.2.8. Dynamically Processing a Result Set
      3. 16.3. Using Stored Programs with MySQLdb
        1. 16.3.1. Calling Simple Stored Programs
        2. 16.3.2. Retrieving a Single Stored Program Result Set
        3. 16.3.3. Retrieving Multiple Stored Program Result Sets
        4. 16.3.4. Retrieving Dynamic Result Sets
        5. 16.3.5. Obtaining Output Parameters
      4. 16.4. A Complete Example
      5. 16.5. Conclusion
    6. 17. Using MySQL Stored Programs with .NET
      1. 17.1. Review of ADO.NET Basics
        1. 17.1.1. Installing the Connector/Net Driver and Configuring Your IDE
        2. 17.1.2. Registering the Driver and Connecting to MySQL
        3. 17.1.3. Issuing a Non-SELECT Statement
        4. 17.1.4. Reusing a Statement Object
        5. 17.1.5. Using Parameters
        6. 17.1.6. Issuing a SELECT and Using a DataReader
        7. 17.1.7. Getting DataReader Metadata
        8. 17.1.8. DataSets
        9. 17.1.9. Handling Errors
        10. 17.1.10. Managing Transactions
      2. 17.2. Using Stored Programs in ADO.NET
        1. 17.2.1. Calling a Simple Stored Procedure
        2. 17.2.2. Supplying Input Parameters
        3. 17.2.3. Using a DataReader with a Stored Program
        4. 17.2.4. Processing Multiple Result Sets in a DataReader
        5. 17.2.5. Dynamically Processing Result Sets
        6. 17.2.6. Using DataSets with Stored Programs
        7. 17.2.7. Retrieving Output Parameters
        8. 17.2.8. Calling Stored Functions
      3. 17.3. Using Stored Programs in ASP.NET
      4. 17.4. Conclusion
  7. IV. Optimizing Stored Programs
    1. 18. Stored Program Security
      1. 18.1. Permissions Required for Stored Programs
        1. 18.1.1. Granting Privileges to Create a Stored Program
        2. 18.1.2. Granting Privileges to Modify a Stored Program
        3. 18.1.3. Granting Privileges to Execute a Stored Program
      2. 18.2. Execution Mode Options for Stored Programs
        1. 18.2.1. The SQL SECURITY Clause
        2. 18.2.2. Using Definer Rights to Implement Security Policies
        3. 18.2.3. Stored Program or View?
        4. 18.2.4. Handling Invoker Rights Errors
      3. 18.3. Stored Programs and Code Injection
        1. 18.3.1. Protecting Against SQL Injection with Stored Programs
        2. 18.3.2. SQL Injection in Stored Programs
      4. 18.4. Conclusion
    2. 19. Tuning Stored Programs and Their SQL
      1. 19.1. Why SQL Tuning Is So Important
        1. 19.1.1. An Instructive Example
      2. 19.2. How MySQL Processes SQL
        1. 19.2.1. Parsing SQL
        2. 19.2.2. Caching
          1. 19.2.2.1. Buffer pool and key cache
          2. 19.2.2.2. Table cache
          3. 19.2.2.3. Query cache
          4. 19.2.2.4. Table statistics
      3. 19.3. SQL Tuning Statements and Practices
        1. 19.3.1. EXPLAIN Statement
        2. 19.3.2. EXPLAIN and Stored Programs
        3. 19.3.3. Details of the EXPLAIN Output
        4. 19.3.4. Extended EXPLAIN
        5. 19.3.5. Optimizer Hints
        6. 19.3.6. Measuring SQL and Stored Program Execution
        7. 19.3.7. The Slow Query Log
      4. 19.4. About the Upcoming Examples
      5. 19.5. Conclusion
    3. 20. Basic SQL Tuning
      1. 20.1. Tuning Table Access
        1. 20.1.1. Index Lookup Versus Full Table Scan
        2. 20.1.2. How MySQL Chooses Between Indexes
        3. 20.1.3. Manually Choosing an Index
        4. 20.1.4. Prefixed (“Partial”) Indexes
        5. 20.1.5. Concatenated Indexes
          1. 20.1.5.1. Merging multiple indexes
          2. 20.1.5.2. Covering indexes
        6. 20.1.6. Comparing the Different Indexing Approaches
        7. 20.1.7. Avoiding Accidental Table Scans
          1. 20.1.7.1. Accidentally suppressing an index using a function
          2. 20.1.7.2. Accidentally suppressing an index using a substring
          3. 20.1.7.3. Creating concatenated indexes with a poor column order
        8. 20.1.8. Optimizing Necessary Table Scans
        9. 20.1.9. Using Merge or Partitioned Tables
      2. 20.2. Tuning Joins
        1. 20.2.1. How MySQL Joins Tables
        2. 20.2.2. Joins Without Indexes
        3. 20.2.3. Joins with Indexes
        4. 20.2.4. Join Order
        5. 20.2.5. A Simple Join Example
      3. 20.3. Conclusion
    4. 21. Advanced SQL Tuning
      1. 21.1. Tuning Subqueries
        1. 21.1.1. Optimizing Subqueries
        2. 21.1.2. Rewriting a Subquery as a Join
        3. 21.1.3. Using Subqueries in Complex Joins
      2. 21.2. Tuning “Anti-Joins” Using Subqueries
        1. 21.2.1. Optimizing an Anti-Join
      3. 21.3. Tuning Subqueries in the FROM Clause
        1. 21.3.1. Using Views
      4. 21.4. Tuning ORDER and GROUP BY
        1. 21.4.1. Creating an Index to Avoid a Sort
        2. 21.4.2. Reducing Sort Overhead by Increasing Sort Memory
      5. 21.5. Tuning DML (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE)
        1. 21.5.1. Batching Inserts
        2. 21.5.2. Optimizing DML by Reducing Commit Frequency
        3. 21.5.3. Triggers and DML Performance
      6. 21.6. Conclusion
    5. 22. Optimizing Stored Program Code
      1. 22.1. Performance Characteristics of Stored Programs
      2. 22.2. How Fast Is the Stored Program Language?
      3. 22.3. Reducing Network Traffic with Stored Programs
      4. 22.4. Stored Programs as an Alternative to Expensive SQL
        1. 22.4.1. Avoid Self-Joins with Procedural Logic
        2. 22.4.2. Optimize Correlated Updates
      5. 22.5. Optimizing Loops
        1. 22.5.1. Move Unnecessary Statements Out of a Loop
        2. 22.5.2. Use LEAVE or CONTINUE to Avoid Needless Processing
      6. 22.6. IF and CASE Statements
        1. 22.6.1. Test for the Most Likely Conditions First
        2. 22.6.2. Avoid Unnecessary Comparisons
        3. 22.6.3. CASE Versus IF
      7. 22.7. Recursion
      8. 22.8. Cursors
      9. 22.9. Trigger Overhead
      10. 22.10. Conclusion
    6. 23. Best Practices in MySQL Stored Program Development
      1. 23.1. The Development Process
      2. 23.2. Coding Style and Conventions
      3. 23.3. Variables
      4. 23.4. Conditional Logic
      5. 23.5. Loop Processing
      6. 23.6. Exception Handling
      7. 23.7. SQL in Stored Programs
      8. 23.8. Dynamic SQL
      9. 23.9. Program Construction
      10. 23.10. Performance
      11. 23.11. Conclusion
  8. About the Authors
  9. Colophon
  10. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
  • Author(s): Guy Harrison, Steven Feuerstein
  • Release date: March 2006
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780596100896