About the Book: High Performance MySQL: 3rd Edition How can you bring out MySQL's full power? With High Performance MySQL, you'll learn advanced techniques for everything from designing schemas, indexes, and queries to tuning your MySQL server, operating system, and hardware to their fullest potential. This guide also teaches you safe and practical ways to scale applications through replication, load balancing, high availability, and failover. Updated to reflect recent advances in MySQL and InnoDB performance, features, and tools, this third edition not only offers specific examples of how MySQL works, it also teaches you why this system works as it does, with illustrative stories and case studies that demonstrate MySQL's principles in action. With this book, you'll learn how to think in MySQL. Learn the effects of new features in MySQL 5.5, including stored procedures, partitioned databases, triggers, and views Implement improvements in replication, high availability, and clustering Achieve high performance when running MySQL in the cloud Optimize advanced querying features, such as full-text searches Take advantage of modern multi-core CPUs and solid-state disks Explore backup and recovery strategies-including new tools for hot online backups Contents Chapter 1 MySQL Architecture and History Chapter 2 Benchmarking MySQL Chapter 3 Profiling Server Performance Chapter 4 Optimizing Schema and Data Types Chapter 5 Indexing for High Performance Chapter 6 Query Performance Optimization Chapter 7 Advanced MySQL Features Chapter 8 Optimizing Server Settings Chapter 9 Operating System and Hardware Optimization Chapter 10 Replication Chapter 11 Scaling MySQL Chapter 12 High Availability Chapter 13 MySQL in the Cloud Chapter 14 Application-Level Optimization Chapter 15 Backup and Recovery Chapter 16 Tools for MySQL Users Appendix Forks and Variants of MySQL Appendix MySQL Server Status Appendix Transferring Large Files Appendix Using EXPLAIN Appendix Debugging Locks Append