MySQL Administration Training Course

Introduction

• Overview of MySQL, its products, and services
• MySQL services and support offerings
• Supported operating systems
• Training curriculum pathways
• MySQL documentation resources

MySQL Architecture

• The client-server model
• Communication protocols
• The SQL Layer
• The Storage Layer
• How the server supports storage engines
• MySQL's utilisation of memory and disk space
• The MySQL plug-in interface

System Administration

• Selecting among different types of MySQL distributions
• Installing the MySQL Server
• File structure of the MySQL Server installation
• Starting and stopping the MySQL server
• Upgrading MySQL
• Running multiple MySQL servers on a single host

Server Configuration

• MySQL server configuration options
• System variables
• SQL Modes
• Available log files
• Binary logging

Clients and Tools

• Clients available for administrative tasks
• MySQL administrative clients
• The mysql command-line client
• The mysqladmin command-line client
• The MySQL Workbench graphical client
• MySQL tools
• Available APIs (drivers and connectors)

Data Types

• Major categories of data types
• The meaning of NULL
• Column attributes
• Character set usage with data types
• Selecting an appropriate data type

Obtaining Metadata

• Methods for accessing available metadata
• Structure of INFORMATION_SCHEMA
• Using available commands to view metadata
• Differences between SHOW statements and INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables
• The mysqlshow client program
• Generating shell commands and SQL statements using INFORMATION_SCHEMA queries

Transactions and Locking

• Using transaction control statements to execute multiple SQL statements concurrently
• The ACID properties of transactions
• Transaction isolation levels
• Employing locking to protect transactions

Storage Engines

• Storage engines within MySQL
• The InnoDB storage engine
• InnoDB system and file-per-table tablespaces
• NoSQL and the Memcached API
• Efficient configuration of tablespaces
• Achieving referential integrity using foreign keys
• InnoDB locking mechanisms
• Features of available storage engines

Partitioning

• Partitioning and its application in MySQL
• Reasons for implementing partitioning
• Types of partitioning
• Creating partitioned tables
• Subpartitioning
• Retrieving partition metadata
• Modifying partitions to enhance performance
• Storage Engine support for Partitioning

User Management

• Requirements for user authentication
• Using SHOW PROCESSLIST to display running threads
• Creating, modifying, and dropping user accounts
• Alternative authentication plugins
• Requirements for user authorisation
• Levels of access privileges for users
• Types of privileges
• Granting, modifying, and revoking user privileges

Security

• Identifying common security risks
• Security risks specific to MySQL installations
• Security issues and countermeasures for networks, operating systems, filesystems, and users
• Data protection strategies
• Using SSL for secure MySQL server connections
• How SSH facilitates secure remote connections to the MySQL server
• Locating additional information on common security issues

Table Maintenance

• Types of table maintenance operations
• SQL statements for table maintenance
• Client and utility programs for table maintenance
• Maintaining tables for other storage engines
• Exporting and Importing Data
• Exporting Data
• Importing Data

Programming Inside MySQL

• Creating and executing Stored Routines
• Understanding stored routine execution security
• Creating and executing triggers
• Creating, altering, and dropping events
• Scheduling event execution

MySQL Backup and Recovery

• Fundamentals of backup
• Types of backup
• Backup tools and utilities
• Creating binary and text backups
• The role of log and status files in backups
• Data Recovery

Replication

• Managing the MySQL Binary Log
• MySQL replication threads and files
• Setting up a MySQL Replication Environment
• Designing Complex Replication Topologies
• Multi-Master and Circular Replication
• Performing a Controlled Switchover
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting MySQL Replication
• Replication with Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs)

Introduction to Performance Tuning

• Using EXPLAIN to Analyze Queries
• General Table Optimizations
• Monitoring status variables that impact performance
• Setting and Interpreting MySQL server Variables
• Overview of Performance Schema

Conclusion

Q&A Session