A genuine interest in SQL is required, which will help in mastering MySQL 8. If you're passionate about data analysis, optimization, and advanced queries, it will be so much easier for you to get you to the next level!

Some examples shown in this book use data sets that could not be publicly distributed. In those cases, you can replicate the examples using similar types of data sets

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781788834445_ColorImages.pdf.

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

# server configuration
 datadir=C:/mysql-8.0.13/data/server1
 basedir=C:/mysql-8.0.13/

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

mysql> select * from mysql.plugin;

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."