Skip to Content
Effective MySQL Optimizing SQL Statements
book

Effective MySQL Optimizing SQL Statements

by Ronald Bradford
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
3h 40m
English
McGraw Hill Computing

Overview

The Essential Guide to SQL Statement Optimization

Written by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements is filled with detailed explanations and practical examples that can be applied immediately to improve database and application performances. Featuring a step-by-step approach to SQL optimization, this Oracle Press book helps you to analyze and tune problematic SQL statements.

  • Identify the essential analysis commands for gathering and diagnosing issues
  • Learn how different index theories are applied and represented in MySQL
  • Plan and execute informed SQL optimizations
  • Create MySQL indexes to improve query performance
  • Master the MySQL query execution plan
  • Identify key configuration variables that impact SQL execution and performance
  • Apply the SQL optimization lifecycle to capture, identify, confirm, analyze, and optimize SQL statements and verify the results
  • Improve index utilization with covering indexes and partial indexes
  • Learn hidden performance tips for improving index efficiency and simplifying SQL statements
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Efficient MySQL Performance

Efficient MySQL Performance

Daniel Nichter
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming

MySQL Stored Procedure Programming

Guy Harrison, Steven Feuerstein
Effective MySQL Replication Techniques in Depth

Effective MySQL Replication Techniques in Depth

Ronald Bradford, Chris Schneider

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780071782791