Pro MySQL

Pro MySQL MICHAEL KRUCKENBERG AND JAY PIPES Pro MySQL Copyright (c) 2005 by Michael Kruckenberg and Jay Pipes All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN (pbk): 1-59059-505-X Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editors: Jason Gilmore, Matthew Moodie Technical Reviewer: Chad Russell Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Dan Appleman, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Tony Davis, Jason Gilmore, Jonathan Hassell, Chris Mills, Dominic Shakeshaft, Jim Sumser Associate Publisher: Grace Wong Project Manager: Kylie Johnston Copy Edit Manager: Nicole LeClerc Copy Editors: Marilyn Smith, Susannah Pfalzer Assistant Production Director: Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor: Linda Marousek Compositor, Artist, and Interior Designer: Diana Van Winkle, Van Winkle Design Group Proofreader: Patrick Vincent, Write Ideas Editorial Consulting Indexer: Ann Rogers Cover Designer: Kurt Krames Manufacturing Manager: Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders-ny@springer-sbm.com, or visit http://www.springeronline.com. For information on translations, please contact Apress directly at 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 219, Berkeley, CA 94710. Phone 510-549-5930, fax 510-549-5939, e-mail info@apress.com, or visit http://www.apress.com. The information in this book is distributed on an as is basis, without warranty. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work. The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.com in the Downloads section. Contents at a Glance Foreword ... xix About the Authors ... xxi About the Technical Reviewer ... xxiii Acknowledgments ... xxv Introduction ... xxvii PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Design and Development ■CHAPTER 1 Analyzing Business Requirements... 3 ■CHAPTER 2 Index Concepts ... 39 ■CHAPTER 3 Transaction Processing ... 69 ■CHAPTER 4 MySQL System Architecture... 105 ■CHAPTER 5 Storage Engines and Data Types ... 153 ■CHAPTER 6 Benchmarking and Profiling... 189 ■CHAPTER 7 Essential SQL... 235 ■CHAPTER 8 SQL Scenarios... 299 ■CHAPTER 9 Stored Procedures ... 349 ■CHAPTER 10 Functions ... 375 ■CHAPTER 11 Cursors ... 405 ■CHAPTER 12 Views ... 419 ■CHAPTER 13 Triggers ... 443 PART 2 ■ ■ ■ Administration ■CHAPTER 14 MySQL Installation and Configuration ... 469 ■CHAPTER 15 User Administration... 497 ■CHAPTER 16 Security ... 533 ■CHAPTER 17 Backup and Restoration ... 555 ■CHAPTER 18 Replication ... 585 ■CHAPTER 19 Cluster ... 617 ■CHAPTER 20 Troubleshooting ... 645 ■CHAPTER 21 MySQL Data Dictionary ... 669 ■INDEX ... 699 iii