Course description
This MySQL Performance & Tuning course is designed for Database Administrators, Application Developers and Technical Consultants who need to monitor and tune the performance of MySQL servers and databases.
The course provides practical experience in monitoring and tuning MySQL servers and databases.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Versions supported 8, 5.7, 5.6.
Who will the Course Benefit?Anyone who wishes to monitor and tune MySQL performance for MySQL 5.6, 5.7 and 8 databases.
Course ObjectivesTo provide the skills necessary to monitor and tune MySQL performance.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Delegates must have a working knowledge of MySQL Database Administration.
This course is run on a Linux operating system, a basic knowledge of Linux/UNIX is recommended but is not essential.
Experience to the level as demonstrated in this course is recommended:
- MySQL Database Administration
Training Course Content
MySQL Performance & Tuning Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- Tuning Overview
- Tuning Levels
- Resolving Performance Issues
- Recommended Approach to Tuning
- Items to Evaluate
- Where to look
- Planning a Monitoring Routine
- Building a New Database for Performance
- Tuning an Existing Database
- Setting Suitable Goals
- Administration Tools
- The Information Schema
- MySQL 8 Information Schema Changes
- Performance-related SHOW Commands
- Benchmarking Tools
- The MySQL Performance Schema
- MonYog
- Exercises: Obtaining Performance Information
- Normalisation
- De-normalisation
- Naming Conventions
- Load Generation, Stress Testing and Benchmarking Tools
- Selecting Data Types
- Data Types
- Character Sets
- Choosing Storage Engines
- Exercises: Effects of Design on Performance
- Overview of Statement Tuning
- Identifying Problem Queries
- The Optimizer
- Explain
- Exercises: Identifying Problem Queries and Using Explain
- Index Overview
- Index Size
- Types of Index
- Index Tuning
- Indexes and Joins
- Descending Indexes
- Invisible Indexes
- InnoDB Cached Indexes Information
- Exercises: Indexes and Performance
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 6: SERVER CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING- Server Configuration Variables
- Server Status Variables
- Table Cache
- Multi-Threading
- Connection Issues
- Query Cache
- Exercises: Setting and Interpreting Server Variables and Caching
- Types of Locking
- Locking and Storage Engines
- Effects of Locking on Performance
- Monitoring InnoDB Locks in MySQL 5,7 and 8
- MySQL 8 Disable Deadlock Detection
- Exercises: Locking and Performance
- Transactions
- Crash Recovery
- Locking
- Monitoring InnoDB
- Caches and Buffers
- Configuring Data Files
- Configuring the Log Files
- Exercises: InnoDB Configuration and Performance
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 9: OTHER STORAGE ENGINES- MyISAM Engine
- Merge Engine
- Archive Engine
- Memory Engine
- Blackhole Engine
- CSV Engine
- The Spider Engine
- The ColumnStore Engine
- The MyRocks Engine
- Mixing Storage Engines
- Exercises: Storage Engine Performance
- Advantages Performance Advantages of Clustering
- Performance Issues and Clustering
- The NDBCluster Engine
- The Galera Cluster
- The Percona XtraDB Cluster
- MySQL InnoDB Cluster
- The Federated Engine
- The FederatedX Engine
- Overview of Other High Availability Techniques
- NOSQL and Mencached Overview
- SQL statements versus delimited data
- Parameters affecting dump performance
- Parameters affecting load performance
- Exercises: Dump and load performance
- Partitioned tables concepts
- Range partitioning
- Hash partitioning
- Key partitioning
- List partitioning
- Composite partitioning or subpartitioning
- Partition Pruning
- MySQL 8 Partitioning new features
- Exercises: Partitioned Table Performance
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