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Helps you delight users through improved execution speeds
Includes the use of Visual Explain—a graphical approach to query analysis
Teaches the full cycle from finding candidate queries to improving their performance
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Getting Started
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Sources of Information
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Tools
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Schema Considerations and the Query Optimizer
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About this book
MySQL 8 Query Performance Tuning aims to help you improve query performance using a wide range of strategies. You will know how to analyze queries using both the traditional EXPLAIN command as well as the new EXPLAIN ANALYZE tool. You also will see how to use the Visual Explain feature to provide a visually-oriented view of an execution plan. Coverage of indexes includes indexing strategies and index statistics, and you will learn how histograms can be used to provide input on skewed data distributions that the optimizer can use to improve query performance. You will learn about locks, and how to investigate locking issues. And you will come away with an understanding of how the MySQL optimizer works, including the new hash join algorithm, and how to change the optimizer’s behavior when needed to deliver faster execution times. You will gain the tools and skills needed to delight application users and to squeeze the most value from corporate computing resources.
What You Will Learn
- Monitor query performance to identify poor performers
- Choose queries to optimize that will provide the greatest gain
- Analyze queries using tools such as EXPLAIN ANALYZE and Visual Explain
- Improve slow queries through a wide range of strategies
- Properly deploy indexes and histograms to aid in creating fast execution plans
- Understand and analyze locks to resolve contention and increase throughput
Who This Book Is For
Database administrators and SQL developers who are familiar with MySQL and need to participate in query tuning. While some experience with MySQL is required, no prior knowledge of query performance tuning is needed.
Keywords
- MySQL Performance Tuning
- Query Optimization
- Query Performance Tuning
- SQL Tuning
- EXPLAIN PLAN
- Visual Explain
- Monitoring
- Transactions and Locks
- Indexes
- Histograms
- Query Digests
- Query Optimizer
- High Performance MySQL
- Optimizing SQL Statements
- MySQL Performance Schema
- MySQL Enterprise Monitor
- MySQL Workbench
- MySQL Shell
- Query Plan
- Locks
Authors and Affiliations
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Hornsby, Australia
Jesper Wisborg Krogh
About the author
Jesper Wisborg Krogh has worked with MySQL databases since 2006 both as an SQL developer, a database administrator, and for more than eight years as part of the Oracle MySQL Support team. He has spoken at MySQL Connect and Oracle OpenWorld on several occasions, and addition to his books, he regularly blogs on MySQL topics and has authored around 800 documents in the Oracle Knowledge Base. He has contributed to the sys schema and four Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) exams for MySQL 5.6 to 8.0.
He earned a PhD in computational chemistry before changing to work with MySQL and other software development in 2006. Jesper lives in Sydney, Australia, and enjoys spending time outdoors walking, traveling, and reading. His areas of expertise include MySQL Cluster, MySQL Enterprise Backup, performance tuning, and the Performance and sys schemas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: MySQL 8 Query Performance Tuning
Book Subtitle: A Systematic Method for Improving Execution Speeds
Authors: Jesper Wisborg Krogh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5584-1
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Jesper Wisborg Krogh 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-5583-4Published: 17 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-5584-1Published: 16 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 965
Number of Illustrations: 135 b/w illustrations
Topics: Database Management, Open Source