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Advanced MySQL 8

By : Eric Vanier, Birju Shah, Tejaswi Malepati
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Advanced MySQL 8

By: Eric Vanier, Birju Shah, Tejaswi Malepati

Overview of this book

Advanced MySQL 8 teaches you to enhance your existing database infrastructure and build various tools to improve your enterprise applications and overall website performance. The book starts with the new and exciting MySQL 8.0 features and how to utilize them for maximum efficiency. As you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to optimize MySQL performance using indexes and advanced data query techniques for large queries. You will also discover MySQL Server 8.0 settings and work with the MySQL data dictionary to boost the performance of your database. In the concluding chapters, you will cover MySQL 8.0 Group Replication, which will enable you to create elastic, highly available, and fault-tolerant replication topologies. You will also explore backup and recovery techniques for your databases and understand important tips and tricks to help your critical data reach its full potential. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned about new MySQL 8.0 security features that allow a database administrator (DBA) to simplify user management and increase the security of their multi-user environments.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Advanced MySQL Performance Tips and Techniques

Serialized Dictionary Information (SDI)

In this chapter, we'll look at the SDI and discuss its advantages and changes.

Many DBAs and developers prefer to copy table data and .frm files from the data dictionary and schedule some batch jobs that automatically recover these tables. This ability has also been used for disaster recovery, where people who are really familiar with .frm are able to rebuild the metadata in the .frm file when they want to.

In MySQL 8.0, the information is provided in the dictionary serialized objects for the dictionary. For InnoDB tablespaces, this information is added to the tablespace, so that the metadata and data are combined, again with performance in mind. For storage engines that do not support this feature, a .sdi file is written.

This is illustrated in the following diagram:

For MySQL tablespaces, InnoDB has an API type of tool to read the...