{"id":1346,"date":"2009-09-27T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T07:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2009-12-16T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T07:09:24","slug":"high-performance-mysql-a-book-to-re-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/high-performance-mysql-a-book-to-re-read","title":{"rendered":"High Performance MySQL &#8211; a book to re-read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/High-Performance-MySQL-Optimization-Replication\/dp\/0596101716\">High Performance MySQL, 2nd edition<\/a> about a year ago, when it first came out. I since re-read a few pages on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>In my previous posts I&#8217;ve suggested ways to improve upon the common ranking solution. Very innovative stuff! Or&#8230; so I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I happened to browse through the book today, and a section on User Variables caught my eye. &#8220;<em>Let&#8217;s see if I get get some insight<\/em>&#8220;, I thought to myself. Imagine my surprise when I realized almost everything I&#8217;ve suggested is discussed in this modest section, black on white, sitting on my bookshelf for over a year!<\/p>\n<p>I have read it a year back, have forgotten all about it, have re-invented stuff already solved and discussed&#8230; Oh, for more brain capacity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, this has happened to me more than once in the past few months; I&#8217;m taking the habit of browsing the web when I&#8217;m looking for answers to my problems; I forget that this book contains the answers to so many common, practical MySQL problems, and does so in a very direct and helpful manner.<\/p>\n<p>So, yet again, thumbs up to <em>High Performance MySQL<\/em>. Really a must book. Get it if you haven&#8217;t already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first read High Performance MySQL, 2nd edition about a year ago, when it first came out. I since re-read a few pages on occasion. In my previous posts I&#8217;ve suggested ways to improve upon the common ranking solution. Very innovative stuff! Or&#8230; so I thought. I happened to browse through the book today, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,52],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-books","tag-performance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2bZZp-lI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}