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Summary: Practical Book for MySQL 4.x users
Comment: This book is very practical and gives a clean insight for Power Users of MySQL. It also illustrates some concepts in brief and gets user going fast. Some of the topics like backups, load balancing are covered very well. In short following is what I can say in points.
-Very good quick reference and tips for mysql 4.x users
-Practical Tips and performance issues which you may not find in mysql official reference
-Writing style is definitely "get going" type and not a "comprehensive guide" style.
I liked this book and I use it as a reference. I would recommend this book to any MySQL 4.x users. Specially for those having the database in production environment, this book is really handy.
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Summary: Good book overall, but may grow obsolete to MySQL5.
Comment: I mainly bought this book so that I could get some insight into 'advanced' Storage and Replication techniques w/ MySQL.
Jeremy provided some pretty detailed and easy to understand examples, with decently comprehensive descriptions which did help answer some of the questions I had.
I'd suggest this book to anyone who wants to understand the principles of Storage and Replication techniques in MySQL4. This book is definately a kick in the right direction, but does not take you too far, so I'd say this is for intermediate users.
MySQL5 has many new storage and replication features not mentioned in this book, some of which resolve a lot of the 'problematic' storage and replication issues that this book discusses, thus making SOME of the content irrelevent (or obsolete) to MySQL5. However, the overall principles remain the same, and can be applied to either version.
If you're using MySQL4, then this book is for you!
If you're using MySQL5, you may want to wait for a revised edition of this book.
I sure hope Jeremy is working on a revised version for MySQL5! *hint*hint* =)
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Summary: A computer book actually worth reading
Comment: I read approximately 2 computer-related books a month, and have done so for the last 10 years. This book is the best computer book I have read in the last 5 years, hands down.
Not content on the basic "how to install, learn SQL, etc" route, Zawodny and company have chosen to give you real nuggets of wisdom to tune your MySQL instance with. This book is for the advanced MySQL developer/DBA/Admin, and medium to high knowledge of MySQL is a must to use this book effectively.
I would recommend this book to anyone with performance problems coming from MySQL. As always, check your code first :)
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Summary: Easy Reading but lacking some things
Comment: This is a book for someone that knows MySQL and wants to give a leap forward, the book is an easy read, you start read and in an afternoon you finish it (it is not a boring book).
Despite all the explanation between the different engines, master/slaves, optimized queries, there is no answers about the topic of binary versus compiled install. The author has 2 or 3 pages about it but it doesnt say absolutely nothing
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Summary: Excellent MySQL Guide
Comment: All the reviews were great on this book, after reading through it I now know why. I found information in the first hour of reading through this book that I had specifically looked for on the internet and never found. I always thought that Mysql queries should allow me to request a line from one table based on the value of a field in another table without needing to write code to handle the value in between to queries. Well, page 91 cleared that up really fast and now my execution time is down by 50% so far. Also saved a load of time in another script using the Count query which was looking for a way to do because I noticed phpMyAdmin knew how much data was in each table without any work.
One negative, this book doesn't cover load balancing in depth enough. They recommended another O'reilly book for that. But it was enough for me.
Great Book! I recommend highly for perl/mod_perl programmers.
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