What this book covers

Chapter 1, Replication: In this chapter, you will see how to set up MySQL replication, useful for load balancing, online backups, and fail-over scenarios. Advanced replication scenarios using the blackhole engine and streaming slave deployment are discussed beyond the basic topics.

Chapter 2, Indexing: You will be shown how to create, drop, and modify indexes, perhaps the most important means of optimizing your MySQL servers’ performance. Fulltext indexing, clustered and non-clustered indexes are compared and presented with their respective strengths and typical use cases. Moreover, you will learn how to identify duplicate indexes, which can hinder your servers’ performance.