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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

Tips and techniques

The tips and techniques which I am sharing with you come from two decades of improving and optimizing MySQL performance in thousands of situations. These tips and techniques can help you better understand how to make your MySQL servers more efficient.

Partitions

Here are some tips:

  • It is not recommended to use PARTITIONS until you know how it will help you
  • Do not use PARTITIONS unless you have more than one million records
  • Do not use more than 50 PARTITIONS on a table; otherwise, the performance will be impacted
  • The PARTITION RANGE mode is the only method that is useful and perfect for your needs in general; it is also easy to manage
  • SUB-PARTITIONS are not necessarily useful, except in specific cases
  • The...