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Advanced MySQL 8

By : Eric Vanier, Birju Shah, Tejaswi Malepati
Book Image

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

Group replication security

To secure a group of members, we have three options:

  • Whitelisting IP addresses of members
  • Communicating over SSL
  • Operating group replication over a virtual private network (VPN)

IP address whitelist

A group replication plugin has a configuration option group_replication_ip_whitelist. If you set this option on server 1, then when server 2 is establishing a connection to server 1, it accepts/rejects the connection. By default, it sets the whitelist to the private networks that the server has interface on. We can specify host names, IP addresses, and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation, separated by a comma. IPV6 addresses and hostname resolving to IPV6 addresses are not supported:

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