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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By : Karthik Appigatla
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MySQL 8 Cookbook

By: Karthik Appigatla

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the World today. The recently released MySQL 8 version promises to be better and more efficient than ever before. This book contains everything you need to know to be the go-to person in your organization when it comes to MySQL. Starting with a quick installation and configuration of your MySQL instance, the book quickly jumps into the querying aspects of MySQL. It shows you the newest improvements in MySQL 8 and gives you hands-on experience in managing high-transaction and real-time datasets. If you've already worked with MySQL before and are looking to migrate your application to MySQL 8, this book will also show you how to do that. The book also contains recipes on efficient MySQL administration, with tips on effective user management, data recovery, security, database monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and more. With quick solutions to common and not-so-common problems you might encounter while working with MySQL 8, the book contains practical tips and tricks to give you the edge over others in designing, developing, and administering your database effectively.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installing MySQL utilities


MySQL utilities gives you very handy tools to smoothly carry out day-to-day operations without much manual effort.

How to do it...

It can be installed on YUM-based and APT-based systems in the following manner. Let's take a look.

On YUM-based systems

Download the files from the MySQL downloads page, https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/utilities/, by selecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Oracle Linux, or directly from this link, using wget:

shell> wget https://cdn.mysql.com//Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-utilities-1.6.5-1.el7.noarch.rpm

shell> sudo yum localinstall -y mysql-utilities-1.6.5-1.el7.noarch.rpm

On APT-based systems

Download the files from the MySQL Downloads page, https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/utilities/, by selecting Ubuntu Linux,  or directly from this link, using wget:

shell> wget "https://cdn.mysql.com//Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-utilities_1.6.5-1ubuntu16.10_all.deb"
shell> sudo dpkg -i mysql-utilities_1.6.5-1ubuntu16.10_all.deb
shell> sudo apt-get install -f