Practice makes a man perfect. But to practice, you need some knowledge and training. This book helps you with that. Most day-to-day and practical scenarios are covered in this book.
Chapter 1, MySQL 8 - Installing and Upgrading, describes how to install MySQL 8 on different flavors of Linux, upgrade to MySQL 8 from previous stable releases, and also downgrade from MySQL 8.
Chapter 2, Using MySQL, takes you through the basic uses of MySQL, such as creating databases and tables; inserting, updating, deleting, and selecting data in various ways; saving to different destinations; sorting and grouping results; joining tables; managing users; other database elements such as triggers, stored procedures, functions, and events; and getting metadata information.
Chapter 3, Using MySQL (Advanced), covers the latest additions to MySQL 8, such as the JSON datatype, common table expressions, and window functions.
Chapter 4, Configuring MySQL, shows you how to configure MySQL and basic configuration parameters.
Chapter 5, Transactions, explains the four isolation levels of RDBMS and how to use MySQL for transactions.
Chapter 6, Binary Logging, demonstrates how to enable binary logging, various formats of binary logs, and how to retrieve data from binary logs.
Chapter 7, Backups, covers various types of backups, the pros and cons of each method, and which one to choose based on your requirements.
Chapter 8, Restoring Data, covers how to recover data from varies backups.
Chapter 9, Replication, explains how to set up various replication topologies. The recipes on switching a slave from master-slave to chain replication and switching a slave from chain replication to master-slave is something that will interest the readers.
Chapter 10, Table Maintenance, covers cloning tables. Managing big tables is something that this chapter will make you a maestro of. Installation and usage of third-party tools is also covered in this chapter.
Chapter 11, Managing Tablespace, deals with recipes that will teach the readers how to resize, create, copy, and manage tablespaces.
Chapter 12, Managing Logs, takes readers through error, general query, slow query, and binary logs.
Chapter 13, Performance Tuning, explains query and schema tuning in detail. There are ample recipes in the chapter that will cover this.
Chapter 14, Security, focuses on the aspects of security. Recipes on securing installation, restricting networks and users, setting and resetting of passwords, and much more in covered are detail.
