High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication

How can you bring out MySQL’s full power? With High Performance MySQL, you’ll learn advanced techniques for everything from designing schemas, indexes, and queries to tuning your MySQL server, operating system, and hardware to their fullest potential. This guide also teaches you safe and practical ways to scale applications through replication, load balancing, high availability, and failover.

Updated to reflect recent advances in MySQL and InnoDB performance, features, and tools, this third edition not only offers specific examples of how MySQL works, it also teaches you why this system works as it does, with illustrative stories and case studies that demonstrate MySQL’s principles in action. With this book, you’ll learn how to think in MySQL.

• Learn the effects of new features in MySQL 5.5, including stored procedures, partitioned databases, triggers, and views
• Implement improvements in replication, high availability, and clustering
• Achieve high performance when running MySQL in the cloud
• Optimize advanced querying features, such as full-text searches
• Take advantage of modern multi-core CPUs and solid-state disks
• Explore backup and recovery strategies—including new tools for hot online backups

• MySQL Cookbook: Solutions for Database Developers and Administrators
• Understanding MySql Internals
• Learning MySql: 1
• MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide: Effective guide to administering high-performance MySQL 8 solutions
• MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
• Sql Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
• Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
• Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (Learning PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, CSS & HTML5)
• Murach's MySQL, 2nd Edition