I've found that if I need a books on programming, databases, or computers in general, that give you information that's useful in the real world, there are only really three publishers who do a great job consistantly. O'Reilly, New Riders, and WROX.
So, you might want to consider the following books:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldbi/
http://www.newriders.com/books/title...sbn=0735709211
http://www.newriders.com/books/title...sbn=073571049X
http://www.newriders.com/books/title...sbn=0735710546
The O'Reilly stuff on these topics might be a little dated. However, two of the three New Riders books above were published in the past two months.
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