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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

By : Chintan Mehta, Ankit K Bhavsar, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah
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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

By: Chintan Mehta, Ankit K Bhavsar, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the world today. The recently released version 8.0 brings along some major advancements in the way your MySQL solution can be administered. This handbook will be your companion to understand the newly introduced features in MySQL and show you how you can leverage them to design a high-performance MySQL solution for your organization. This book starts with a brief introduction to the new features in MySQL 8, and then quickly jumping onto the crucial administration topics that you will find useful in your day-to-day work. Topics such as migrating to MySQL 8, MySQL benchmarking, achieving high performance by implementing the indexing techniques, and optimizing your queries are covered in this book. You will also learn how to perform replication, scale your MySQL solution and implement effective security techniques. There is also a special section on the common and not so common troubleshooting techniques for effective MySQL administration is also covered in this book. By the end of this highly practical book, you will have all the knowledge you need to tackle any problem you might encounter while administering your MySQL solution.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating a custom storage engine

MySQL AB introduced pluggable storage engine architecture in MySQL 5.1 and all later versions, including MySQL 8, have taken advantage of the flexible storage engine architecture.

The storage engine pluggable architecture provides the capability to create and add new storage engines without recompiling the server, adding directly to a running MySQL server. The architecture makes it very easy to develop and deploy new storage engines to MySQL 8.

When developing new storage engine, it is required to take care of all the components that work for and with storage engines. These include installation handlers, operations on table such as creating, opening, and closing, DML, indexing, and so on.

In this section, we will cover how you can start developing a new storage engine on a high-level basis with reference to the MySQL documentation provided in the...