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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

Efficiently managing time to live and soft delete rows


RANGE COLUMNS is highly useful in managing time to live and soft delete rows. Suppose you have a application which specifies the expiry time of row (row to be deleted after it crosses the expiry time) and the expiry is varying.

Suppose the application can do the following types of inserts:

  • Insert persistent data
  • Insert with expiry

If the expiry is constant i.e all the rows inserted will be deleted after certain time, we can go with RANGE partitioning. But if the expiry is varying i.e some rows will be deleted in a week, some in a month, some in a year and some have no expiry, it is not possible to create partitions. In that case, you can use the RANGE COLUMNS partitioning explained below.

How it works...

We introduce a column called soft_delete which will be set by trigger. The soft_delete column will be part of range column partitioning.

Partitioning will be like (soft_delete, expires). The soft_delete and expires together controls which partition...