Comments on: High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More http://www.cgiphp.com/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/ Enhance your site with CGi, PHP and ASP scripts Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:46:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michael T. Saldivar http://www.cgiphp.com/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Michael T. Saldivar Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:13:56 +0000 http://bloghost.xaviermedia.net/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/#comment-464 For weeks, I'd been searching online, trying to find out what MySQL's slow queries log actually was. Eventually I found it. <br /> <br />And then I got this book, and there was an even better description than what I'd found in MySQL's online documentation. <br /> <br />I swear, after I've worked my way through this book, if I don't double my wages, I'll be a monkey's uncle. Rating: 5 / 5 For weeks, I'd been searching online, trying to find out what MySQL's slow queries log actually was. Eventually I found it.

And then I got this book, and there was an even better description than what I'd found in MySQL's online documentation.

I swear, after I've worked my way through this book, if I don't double my wages, I'll be a monkey's uncle.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: F. Levanti http://www.cgiphp.com/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-463 F. Levanti Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:45:50 +0000 http://bloghost.xaviermedia.net/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/#comment-463 A good book for developers that want more. They want to optimize their scripts and really understand how MYSQL works also behind the scene. <br /> <br />A must have book <br /> <br /> Rating: 5 / 5 A good book for developers that want more. They want to optimize their scripts and really understand how MYSQL works also behind the scene.

A must have book

Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Marinko Tarlac http://www.cgiphp.com/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-462 Marinko Tarlac Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:11:00 +0000 http://bloghost.xaviermedia.net/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/#comment-462 Very nice book but unfortunately this book is not for beginners so if you're new in databases try to read some tutorials or books for beginners and then come back for this book. <br /> <br /> Rating: 5 / 5 Very nice book but unfortunately this book is not for beginners so if you're new in databases try to read some tutorials or books for beginners and then come back for this book.

Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: William B. Harding http://www.cgiphp.com/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-461 William B. Harding Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:08:29 +0000 http://bloghost.xaviermedia.net/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/#comment-461 I bought this book hoping to get a detailed understanding of how to best create and use indexes for my high traffic web site. While the book does a great job of covering the pros and cons of standard indexes, it devotes only a single page to the utility of index_merge (introduced in Mysql 5.0). Combined with a general dearth of information about index_merge on the web, this was a really disappointment, since index_merge seems to afford the possibility of using multiple, smaller indexes, rather than smaller number of bulky indexes (as this book recommends). <br /> <br />In my eyes, a thorough analysis of indexing techniques in Mysql 5+ must discuss the strategic opportunities afforded by index_merge. It would seem to me that this gives the developer the ability to simply index the fields they want indexed, without having to sweat left-precedence of combined indexes or trying to make long indexes that include all of the possibly needed indexes in an order that will satisfy all possible query combinations. <br /> <br />If limitations to the utility of index_merge make some of these possibilities not feasible, the book ought to at least give a rundown of the pros and cons of index_merge vs. compound indexes. <br /> <br />The near-total omission of a new feature that could have profound implications upon the most optimal way to query & index makes me recommend this book with a tablespoon of salt. Rating: 3 / 5 I bought this book hoping to get a detailed understanding of how to best create and use indexes for my high traffic web site. While the book does a great job of covering the pros and cons of standard indexes, it devotes only a single page to the utility of index_merge (introduced in Mysql 5.0). Combined with a general dearth of information about index_merge on the web, this was a really disappointment, since index_merge seems to afford the possibility of using multiple, smaller indexes, rather than smaller number of bulky indexes (as this book recommends).

In my eyes, a thorough analysis of indexing techniques in Mysql 5+ must discuss the strategic opportunities afforded by index_merge. It would seem to me that this gives the developer the ability to simply index the fields they want indexed, without having to sweat left-precedence of combined indexes or trying to make long indexes that include all of the possibly needed indexes in an order that will satisfy all possible query combinations.

If limitations to the utility of index_merge make some of these possibilities not feasible, the book ought to at least give a rundown of the pros and cons of index_merge vs. compound indexes.

The near-total omission of a new feature that could have profound implications upon the most optimal way to query & index makes me recommend this book with a tablespoon of salt.
Rating: 3 / 5

]]> By: Rahul Jaiswal http://www.cgiphp.com/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Rahul Jaiswal Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:33:10 +0000 http://bloghost.xaviermedia.net/blog/high-performance-mysql-optimization-backups-replication-and-more/#comment-460 The book is good. lots of new information as compared to the previous edition. <br /> the book arrived in time. Rating: 4 / 5 The book is good. lots of new information as compared to the previous edition.

the book arrived in time.
Rating: 4 / 5

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