What Is an Embedded System?
Until now in this book, we have always treated MySQL as a separate entity from other applications, as a server program that runs independently, and to which other users and applications can connect. You have seen how to connect to a MySQL server through the mysql client and through the PHP, Perl, and C APIs.
MySQL version 4 introduced the capability to link the program code of MySQL into another program. Embedding means that you can put a full-featured MySQL server inside a client application.
If you are a software author writing an application, you can create your application with a MySQL database embedded within it. The client-server paradigm is broken, with application and database becoming a single program.
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