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The Essential Guide to SQL Statement Optimization

Written by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements is filled with detailed explanations and practical examples that can be applied immediately to improve database and application performances. Featuring a step-by-step approach to SQL optimization, this Oracle Press book helps you to analyze and tune problematic SQL statements.

  • Identify the essential analysis commands for gathering and diagnosing issues
  • Learn how different index theories are applied and represented in MySQL
  • Plan and execute informed SQL optimizations
  • Create MySQL indexes to improve query performance
  • Master the MySQL query execution plan
  • Identify key configuration variables that impact SQL execution and performance
  • Apply the SQL optimization lifecycle to capture, identify, confirm, analyze, and optimize SQL statements and verify the results
  • Improve index utilization with covering indexes and partial indexes
  • Learn hidden performance tips for improving index efficiency and simplifying SQL statements

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The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Business Information

Written by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery covers all the options with detailed descriptions and syntax examples to ensure an appropriate backup and recovery plan can be developed. Featuring a side-by-side evaluation of the various backup strategies and complementary recovery implementations, this Oracle Press book helps you to protect your MySQL data from a wide range of disaster situations.

  • Learn how different backup strategies affect locking and system availability
  • Identify the importance of static backup options and point-in-time requirements
  • Recognize the important business factors to determine your optimal data protection requirements
  • Understand the benefits of using MySQL replication for leveraging different backup strategies
  • Understand the benefits and risks of implementing solutions with MySQL in the cloud
  • Identify key configuration variables that affect data durability and performance
  • Find out about the types of possible disasters and develop a robust plan to address them
  • Optimize your backup approach with compression, streaming, incremental, and parallel options