- ISBN13: 9780596101718
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Product Description
High Performance MySQL is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL’s full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, queries and advanced MyS… More >>
High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More
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#1 by Rahul Jaiswal on January 30, 2010 - 1:37 pm
The book is good. lots of new information as compared to the previous edition.
the book arrived in time.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by William B. Harding on January 30, 2010 - 1:59 pm
I bought this book hoping to get a detailed understanding of how to best create and use indexes for my high traffic web site. While the book does a great job of covering the pros and cons of standard indexes, it devotes only a single page to the utility of index_merge (introduced in Mysql 5.0). Combined with a general dearth of information about index_merge on the web, this was a really disappointment, since index_merge seems to afford the possibility of using multiple, smaller indexes, rather than smaller number of bulky indexes (as this book recommends).
In my eyes, a thorough analysis of indexing techniques in Mysql 5+ must discuss the strategic opportunities afforded by index_merge. It would seem to me that this gives the developer the ability to simply index the fields they want indexed, without having to sweat left-precedence of combined indexes or trying to make long indexes that include all of the possibly needed indexes in an order that will satisfy all possible query combinations.
If limitations to the utility of index_merge make some of these possibilities not feasible, the book ought to at least give a rundown of the pros and cons of index_merge vs. compound indexes.
The near-total omission of a new feature that could have profound implications upon the most optimal way to query & index makes me recommend this book with a tablespoon of salt.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Marinko Tarlac on January 30, 2010 - 4:42 pm
Very nice book but unfortunately this book is not for beginners so if you’re new in databases try to read some tutorials or books for beginners and then come back for this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by F. Levanti on January 30, 2010 - 5:33 pm
A good book for developers that want more. They want to optimize their scripts and really understand how MYSQL works also behind the scene.
A must have book
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Michael T. Saldivar on January 30, 2010 - 8:02 pm
For weeks, I’d been searching online, trying to find out what MySQL’s slow queries log actually was. Eventually I found it.
And then I got this book, and there was an even better description than what I’d found in MySQL’s online documentation.
I swear, after I’ve worked my way through this book, if I don’t double my wages, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.
Rating: 5 / 5