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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

MySQL server optimization

Of course, it's important to keep in mind that there are different settings that work better for some servers with light and predictable loads, compared to servers running at almost full capacity all the time or those experiencing high activity variations.

In the following sections, we will discuss the the main optimization steps you can perform.

Control the types of data change operations

When operations such as INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE are run on a table, the values of the indexed columns are often in unsorted order, and this will require input/output; updating the secondary indexes included will adversely affect performance.

However, InnoDB caches (in memory) the changes made to secondary...