Geared to intermediate- to advanced-level DBAs and IT professionals looking to enhance their MySQL skills, this guide provides a comprehensive overview on how to manage and optimize MySQL databases. You'll learn how to create databases and implement backup and recovery, security configurations, high availability, scaling techniques, and performance tuning. Using practical techniques, tips, and real-world examples, authors Arunjith Aravindan and Jeyaram Ayyalusamy show you how to deploy and manage MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Azure MySQL. By the end of the book, you'll have the knowledge and skills necessary to administer, manage, and optimize MySQL databases effectively. Design and implement a scalable and reliable database infrastructure using MySQL 8 on premises and cloud Install and configure software, manage user accounts, and optimize database performance Use backup and recovery strategies, security measures, and high availability solutions Apply best practices for database schema design, indexing strategies, and replication techniques Implement advanced database features and techniques such as replication, clustering, load balancing, and high availability Troubleshoot common issues and errors, using diagnostic tools and techniques to identify and resolve problems quickly and efficiently Facilitate major MySQL upgrades including MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8

Step by step guide to monitor, manage, and secure your database engine Key Features Your companion to master all the administration-related tasks in MySQL 8 Ensure high performance and high availability of your MySQL solution using effective replication and backup techniques A comprehensive guide to performing query optimization, security and a whole host of other administrative tasks in MySQL 8 Book Description MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the world today. The recently released version 8.0 brings along some major advancements in the way your MySQL solution can be administered. This handbook will be your companion to understand the newly introduced features in MySQL and how you can leverage them to design a high-performance MySQL solution for your organization. This book starts with a brief introduction to the newly introduced features in MySQL 8, followed by quickly jumping onto the crucial administration topics that you will find useful in your day to day work. Topics such as migrating to MySQL 8, MySQL benchmarking, achieving high performance by implementing the indexing techniques, and optimizing your queries are covered in this book. You will also learn how to perform replication, scale your MySQL solution and implement effective security techniques. A special section on the common and not so common troubleshooting techniques for effective MySQL administration is also covered in this book. By the end of this highly practical book, you will have all the knowledge you need to tackle any problem you might encounter while administering your MySQL solution. What you will learn Understanding different MySQL 8 data types based on type of contents and storage requirements Best practices for optimal use of features in MySQL 8 Explore globalization configuration and caching techniques to improve performance Create custom storage engine as per system requirements Learn various ways of index implementation for flash memory storages Configure and implement replication along with approaches to use replication as solution Understand how to make your MySQL 8 solution highly available Troubleshoot common issues and identify error codes while using MySQL 8 Who this book is for This book is intended for MySQL administrators who are looking for a handy guide covering all the MySQL administration-related tasks. If you are a DBA looking to get started with MySQL administration, this book will also help you. Knowledge of the basic database concepts is required to get started with this book.

This new book in the popular Learning series offers an easy-to-use resource for newcomers to the MySQL relational database. This tutorial explains in plain English how to set up MySQL and related software from the beginning, and how to do common tasks.

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Set up, manage, and configure the new InnoDB Cluster feature in MySQL from Oracle. If you are growing your MySQL installation and want to explore making your servers highly available, this book provides what you need to know about high availability and the new tools that are available in MySQL 8.0.11 and later. Introducing InnoDB Cluster teaches you about the building blocks that make up InnoDB Cluster such as MySQL Group Replication for storing data redundantly, MySQL Router for the routing of inbound connections, and MySQL Shell for simplified setup and configuration, status reporting, and even automatic failover. You will understand how it all works together to ensure that your data are available even when your primary database server goes down. Features described in this book are available in the Community Edition of MySQL, beginning with the version 8.0.11 GA release, making this book relevant for any MySQL users in need of redundancy against failure. Tutorials in the book show how to configure a test environment and plan a production deployment. Examples are provided in the form of a walk-through of a typical MySQL high-availability setup. What You'll Learn Discover the newest high-availability features in MySQL Set up and use InnoDB Cluster as an HA solution Migrate your existing servers to MySQL 8 Employ best practices for using InnoDB Cluster Configure servers for optimal automatic failover to ensure that applications continue when a server fails Configure MySQL Router to load-balance inbound connections to the clusterWho This Book Is For Systems engineers, developers, and database professionals wanting to learn about the powerful high availability (HA) features, beginning with MySQL 8.0.11: MySQL Shell, MySQL Router, and MySQL Group Replication. The book is useful for those designing high-availability systems backed by a database, and for those interested in open source HA solutions.

Organization: The book is divided into five parts: Getting Starated with MySQL and Relational Databases; Understanding SQL Through MySQL; MySQL Administration; MySQL Developer Guide; and Advanced and Specialized MySQL Topics. Comprehensive coverage: This Bible covers both beginning-level and advanced topics. Topics covered include: introduction to relational database management; installing and configuring MySQL on the Linux, Windows 2000, and Mac OS X operating systems; MySQL security; debugging and repairing MySQL databases and servers; MySQL performance tuning; and developing MySQL applications with Perl and PHP. Coverage of NuSphere MySQL: Due to the growing popularity of the NuSphere MySQL package, this book covers its enhancements and how to install and develop with NuSphere MySQL. Running database application: This book builds an e-commerce sample database application throughout to demonstrate concepts and topics. ABOUT THE CD-ROM: What's on the CD-ROM: The CD-ROM includes the latest version of MySQL (either Version 4.0 or 4.1); sample database application and code in the book; and PHP and Perl.

Move data back and forth between database and application. The must-have knowledge in this book helps programmers learn how to use the official driver, MySQL Connector/Python, by which Python programs communicate with the MySQL database. This book takes you from the initial installation of the connector through basic query execution, then through more advanced topics, error handing, and troubleshooting. The book covers both the traditional API as well as the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI is part of MySQL 8.0 and is an API that can be used with connectors for several programming languages and is used from the command-line interface known as MySQL Shell. You will learn to use the connector by working through code examples and following a discussion of how the API calls work. By the end of the book, you will be able to use MySQL as the back-end storage for your Python programs, and you’ll even have the option of choosing between SQL and NoSQL interfaces. What You'll Learn Install MySQL Connector/Python Connect to MySQL and configure database access Execute SQL and NoSQL queries from your Python program Trap errors and troubleshoot problems Store data from different languages using MySQL’s character set support Work in the X DevAPI that underlies all of MySQL’s language connectors Who This Book Is For Developers familiar with Python who are looking at using MySQL as the back-end database. No prior knowledge of Connector/Python is assumed, but readers should be familiar with databases and the Python programming language.