MySQL Administration Training Course

Introduction

• MySQL overview, products, and services
• MySQL services and support
• Supported operating systems
• Training curriculum paths
• MySQL documentation resources

MySQL Architecture

• The client/server model
• Communication protocols
• The SQL layer
• The storage layer
• How the server supports storage engines
• Memory and disk space utilisation in MySQL
• The MySQL plug-in interface

System Administration

• Selecting MySQL distribution types
• Installing the MySQL Server
• MySQL Server installation file structure
• 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

• Primary categories of data types
• Understanding the meaning of NULL
• Column attributes
• Character set usage with data types
• Selecting appropriate data types

Obtaining Metadata

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

Transactions and Locking

• Using transaction control statements for concurrent SQL execution
• ACID properties of transactions
• Transaction isolation levels
• Utilising locking to protect transactions

Storage Engines

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

Partitioning

• Partitioning concepts and usage in MySQL
• Benefits of using partitioning
• Types of partitioning
• Creating partitioned tables
• Subpartitioning
• Retrieving partition metadata
• Modifying partitions for performance improvement
• Partitioning support in storage engines

User Management

• User authentication requirements
• Using SHOW PROCESSLIST to monitor running threads
• Creating, modifying, and dropping user accounts
• Alternative authentication plugins
• User authorisation requirements
• Levels of user access privileges
• 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 network, OS, filesystem, and users
• Data protection strategies
• Using SSL for secure MySQL server connections
• Enabling secure remote connections via SSH
• 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 in other storage engines
• Exporting and importing data
• Data export processes
• Data import processes

Programming Inside MySQL

• Creating and executing stored routines
• Security considerations for stored routine execution
• Creating and executing triggers
• Creating, altering, and dropping events
• Scheduling event execution

MySQL Backup and Recovery

• Backup fundamentals
• Types of backups
• Backup tools and utilities
• Performing binary and text backups
• The role of log and status files in backups
• Data recovery procedures

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
• Executing controlled switchovers
• Monitoring and troubleshooting MySQL replication
• Replication using Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs)

Introduction to Performance Tuning

• Analysing queries using EXPLAIN
• General table optimisation techniques
• Monitoring status variables that impact performance
• Setting and interpreting MySQL server variables
• Overview of Performance Schema

Conclusion

Q&A Session