I’m currently reading High Performance MySQL by Schwartz, Zaitsev, Tkachenko, Zawodny, Lentz, Balling

Great, in-depth material on everything related to customizing your MySQL Database configuration, and a plethora of info on all of the many, many ways and tools available, for measuring, profiling, analyzing your database.

If you’re strictly an “end user” type programmer of MySQL (versus being a DBA), and have only ever created the basic tables without attention to specifics, and without knowing what the defaults are, etc..
    I summarized some under-the-hood facts that might help with getting more out of MySQL than you’re used to.

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