High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication

Tkachenko, Vadim, Zaitsev, Peter, Schwartz, Baron

ISBN 10: 1449314287 / ISBN 13: 9781449314286

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2012

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Synopsis:

How can you bring out MySQLâ??s full power? With High Performance MySQL, youâ??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 MySQLâ??s principles in action. With this book, youâ??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 strategiesâ??including new tools for hot online backups

About the Authors: Baron Schwartz is Chief Performance Architect at Percona. He creates tools and techniques to make MySQL easier to use and more dependable,and speaks regularly at conferences worldwide. He lives in Virginia with his family.

Peter managed the High Performance Group within MySQL until 2006, when he founded Percona. Peter has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and is an expert in database kernels, computer hardware, and application scaling. He serves as CEO of Percona, while keeping touch with his technical roots by continuing to do consulting for key customers.

Vadim Tkachenko is the CTO and co-founder of Percona, and an author on the MySQLPerformanceBlog.com and SSDPerformanceBlog.com blogs. Vadim leads Percona's development group, which produces the Percona Server, Percona XtraDB Cluster, and Percona XtraBackup.

Bibliographic Details

Title: High Performance MySQL: Optimization, ...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 3rd Edition