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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

Benchmarking queries and the server


Suppose you want to find out which of the queries is faster. The explain plan gives you an idea, but sometimes you cannot decide based on it. You can execute them on the server and find which one is faster if the query time is in the order of tens of seconds. However, if the query time is in the order of a few milliseconds, you cannot decide based on a single execution.

You can use the mysqlslap utility (it comes along with MySQL-client installation), which emulates client load for a MySQL server and reports the timing of each stage. It works as if multiple clients are accessing the server. In this section, you will learn about the usage of mysqlslap; in later sections, you will learn about the power of the mysqlslap.

How to do it...

Suppose you want to measure the query time of a query; if you execute that in the MySQL client, you can know the approximate execution time with a granularity of 100 milliseconds:

mysql> pager grep rows
PAGER set to 'grep rows...