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Query: Some good info, but ...

Unfortunately, time and development have passed this book by. It is for MySQL 4.0, which has been FAR surpassed by the newer 5.0 version.As mentioned by some other reviewers, one of the main problems with the book is the illustrations. They are so dark as to be illegible. Not sure what the people that got the press proofs were thinking when they let that out the door.The author does a reasonable job on certain areas (hey, can't be all bad if he has a dedication to Eddie Van Halen).Might want to try the third edition of MySQL by Paul DuBois as a good reference book that is much more up-to-date.