Karthik Appigatla - MySQL 8 Cookbook

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Karthik Appigatla is a highly reputed database architect and is very famous for performance tuning. He has been consulted by many companies all over the world for designing, performance tuning, building database infrastructure, and training. In his decade of experience, he has worked for companies such as Yahoo, Pythian, and Percona. Currently, he is working for LinkedIn, where he has innovated a new way of analyzing queries. He gave a talk about this at SRECon, Dublin in 2017.

Marco Ippolito is an Italian software engineer working as Director of Software Development for Imagining IT. Marco completed his postgraduate in Software Engineering in Oxford and has worked for large corporations such as Intel, HP, Google, Dell, and Oracle (in the acquired MySQL team), as well as for start-ups such as @platformsh and for large production users of MySQL such as @bookingcom (Twitter). He can be reached at marco.ippolito@imaginingit.com and has experience working in teams speaking Italian, English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, and French, remotely or onsite.

Kedar Mohaniraj Vaijanapurkar is a MySQL database consultant with over a decade of experience, ranging from programming to database administration. He aims to spread happiness with the MySQL database systems he works on. Apart from working with MySQL and related open source technologies, he also explores cloud, automation, and NoSQL. He is a 5-year Pythian laureate living with his awesome family in the cultured city of Vadodara, India. You can reach him at kedar@nitty-witty.com.

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MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the world today. With the recently released MySQL 8, it promises to be better and more efficient than ever, giving you high-performance querying results and easy configuration as an administrator.

This book is for a wide range of readers. MySQL database administrators and developers who have worked on earlier versions of MySQL will learn about the features of MySQL 8 and how they can leverage them. For readers who worked on other RDBMSes such as Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and Db2 this book will be a quick start guide to MySQL 8. For beginners, this book serves as a handbook; they can refer to the recipes and find quick solutions to their problems.

Most importantly, this book makes you production-ready. After reading this book, you will be confident in handling busy database servers with large datasets.

In my 10 years of experience with MySQL, I have witnessed small mistakes leading to major outages. In this book, many scenarios where a mistake can be made are covered and put under a warning label.

The topics are introduced in such a way that a beginner need not go back and forth to understand the concepts. A reference link to the MySQL documentation or any other source is provided for each topic, and the reader can refer to the link for more details.

Since this book is written to suit beginners as well, there may be a few recipes on topics you already know; feel free to skip them.