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
