Learning Golang: Relational Databases using MySQL

In this episode I cover how to interact with using MySQL in Go/Golang, this is via the "database/sql" package in the standard library.

In the previous I introduced "database/sql" but I used "pgx", a driver for PostgreSQL, in this case we are going to be using "go-sql-driver/mysql" and call out the differences compared to the PostgreSQL package.

Practically the biggest three differences are:

* Placeholders are defined by the character "?" instead of sequential dollar values
* "mysql.Config" should be used for creating a valid DSN value instead of url.URL
* "go-sql-driver/mysql" does not provide a MySQL-only API, so we have to use "database/sql" instead.

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00:00 - Start
00:25 - Introduction to go-sql-driver/mysql for Go/Golang
00:41 - Importing go-sql-driver/mysql and using it with Docker
03:48 - Using go-sql-driver/mysql
10:44 - Conclusion

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[sarrieri]

Hello, Mario, great video, however I was expecting to see some relationsips. Keep up the good job!

[fabricioaraujo]

Thanks for all your content Mario i really appreciate it your effort to bring this here :)

[dev-playing-gt]

I enjoyed the video. By the way I think JPA in Java is very convenient and the combination of Spring boot and JPA may be a very good choice for most cases using RDBMS.
Can you explain when I should use Go rather than Java and JPA?