On this page you can download samples, code that we used in the book, errata, and anything else we think of to post.
Sample Content
We’ve been authorized to post selected parts of the book for your browsing pleasure. Please enjoy.
- High Performance MySQL Foreword
- High Performance MySQL Table Of Contents
- High Performance MySQL Sample Chapter: Chapter 4, Query Performance Optimization
- High Performance MySQL Index
You can also read snippets (about 1.5 pages) of each section of the book at The O’Reilly Page. This lets you get a good idea of the content of the chapter, since each chapter has a bunch of sections — basically this is a good way to preview about 10-15 pages per chapter.
Links
We tried to use standard, widely available tools and content for the book. Here’s a list of things you may find useful for following along with what we did in the book:
- Sakila and World sample databases. Search for the text “sakila” on this page; you will find a link to download the databases, plus a guide explaining how they work and what they contain.
- Maatkit and innotop — the tools no MySQL database administrator should be without!
- MySQL master-master replication manager
