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Physical/logical architecture MySQL

  • Server files and startup scripts
  • Server configuration MySQL
  • My.cnf
  • Basic parameters
  • Server log files
  • Querylog
  • Slow query log
  • Errorlog

Management

  • User accounts
  • Permissions and security in MySQL
  • Backup and Restore - Mysqldump vs. Percona Backup
  • Database maintenance

Schema optimization

  • InnoDB: specific presentation - advantages and disadvantages, what is it really different from MyISAM - when to use what?
  • How to choose primary keys (when spatial, when b-tree, etc.)?
  • Fulltext search on the InnoDB engine (<5.6 only MyISAM possible, above 5.6 MyISAM+InnoDB)

MySQL Query Cache

  • Why, for what queries, what value, is it worth making it large?

Performance testing, determining performance problems

  • What to test – depending on the results we want to obtain
  • Solving performance problems (slow queries, waits, performance tools, etc.)

Data sharding (horizontally and vertically)

  • Differences, costs, limitations

Schema optimization

Indexing

  • Indexes on very large tables
  • Primary keys (when complex, in what fields)

Data types

  • Tips in selecting data types, correct use of field types (int/float, time, geolocation) - benefits, limitations
  • Is a primary key other than int acceptable and equally efficient?
  • Should every table have a primary key?
  • Transactions - when to use and when not - advantages and disadvantages.

Optimization of the operating system and hardware utilization

  • The most important parameters in my.cnf

Optimization at the application level

  • Optimization tools
  • Scripts that analyze settings and display suggestions

Database replication

  • Replications, clusters - how to achieve high availability?
  • Replication Configuration (ROW/PAGE, troubleshooting, rebuilding, monitoring/diagnosing the replication process

MySQL Proxy vs. HAProxy

  • Principle of operation, reliability(?), advantages, disadvantages

MySQL Cluster

  • Principle of operation
  • Configuration
  • Efficiency
  • Security

Cache

  • Cache MySQL, temporary tables
  • Is it worth moving relationships to databases or is it better to keep them in the code?
  • Subqueries & joins - should they be used, how should they be optimized?

Explain as an aid for query testing

  • Using indexes to build queries
  • Query profiling - what tools and how to do it effectively?
  • Visual design tools - is it worth using or simplifying structures?

Good practices and naming conventions - keys, columns, indexes, tables

Building optimal table structures

  • Triggers: good practices when it comes to maintaining logic in procedures and triggers - how to manage, how to test, when it is worth using?
  • Design patterns and anti-patterns

Is it worth switching to MariaDB?

Management tools

  • MySQL Workbench
  • Navicat
  • Heidi SQL
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