November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
335 pages
9h 21m
English
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Chapter 1. Query Response Time
Performance is query response time.
This book explores that idea from various angles with a single intent: to help you achieve remarkable MySQL performance. Efficient MySQL performance means focusing on the best practices and techniques that directly affect MySQL performance—no superfluous details or deep internals required by DBAs and experts. I presume that you’re a busy professional who is using MySQL, not managing it, and that you need the most results for the least effort. That’s not laziness, that’s efficiency. To that end, this book is direct and to the point. And by the end, you will be able to achieve remarkable MySQL performance.
MySQL performance is a complex and multifaceted subject, but you do not need to become an expert to achieve remarkable performance. I narrow the scope of MySQL complexity by focusing on the essentials. MySQL performance begins with query response time.
Query response time is how long it takes MySQL to execute a query. Synonymous terms are: response time, query time, execution time, and (inaccurately) query latency.1 Timing starts when MySQL receives the query and ends when it has sent the result set to the client. Query response time comprises many stages (steps during query execution) and waits (lock waits, I/O waits, and so on), but a complete and detailed breakdown is neither possible nor necessary. As with many systems, basic troubleshooting and analysis reveal the majority of problems.
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