MySQL & PHP Training
MySQL Performance & Tuning
Overview
This MySQL Performance & Tuning course is designed for Database Administrators who wish to monitor and tune the performance of MySQL servers and databases. The course provides practical experience in monitoring and tuning MySQL servers and databases.
Prerequisites
Delegates must have a working knowledge of MySQL Database Administration.
Objectives
To provide the skills necessary to monitor and tune MySQL performance.
Outline
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMANCE TUNING
- Tuning Overview
- 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
Session 2: MYSQL TOOLS
- Administration Tools
- The Information Schema
- Performance-related SHOW Commands
- Benchmarking Tools
- The MySQL Performance Schema
- Exercises: Obtaining Performance Information
Session 3: SCHEMA DESIGN
- Normalisation
- De-normalisation
- Data Types
- Character Sets
- Choosing Storage Engines
- Exercises: Effects of Design on Performance
Session 4: STATEMENT TUNING
- Overview of Statement Tuning
- Identifying Problem Queries
- The Optimizer
- Explain
- Explain Extended
- Exercises: Identifying Problem Queries and Using Explain
Session 5: INDEXES
- Index Overview
- Types of Index
- Index Tuning
- Indexes and Joins
- Exercises: Indexes and Performance
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 6: SERVER CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING
- Server Configuration Variables
- Server Status Variables
- Table Cache
- Multi-Threading
- Query Cache
- Exercises: Setting and Interpreting Server Variables and Caching
Session 7: LOCKING
- Types of Locking
- Locking and Storage Engines
- Effects of Locking on Performance
- Exercises: Locking and Performance
Session 8: THE MYISAM ENGINE
- Advantages and Disadvantages of MyISAM
- How MyISAM Caches Data
- MyISAM Formats
- MyISAM Indexes
- MyISAM Locking
- The Key Cache
- Tuning MyISAM
- Exercises: Monitoring and Tuning the MyISAM Engine
Session 9: THE MERGE ENGINE
- The Merge Engine Concept
- Advantages and Disadvantages of The Merge Engine
- Locking with the Merge Engine
- Performance Issues with the Merge Engine
- Exercises: Merge Engine Performance Versus MyISAM
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 10: THE INNODB ENGINE
- Transactions
- Crash Recovery
- Locking
- Monitoring InnoDB
- Caches and Buffers
- Configuring Data Files
- Configuring the Log Files
- Exercises: InnoDB Configuration and Performance
Session 11: OTHER STORAGE ENGINES
- Archive Engine
- Memory Engine
- Federated Engine
- Blackhole Engine
- CSV Engine
- Overview of Clustering and Performance
- Mixing Storage Engines
- Exercises: Storage Engine Performance
Session 12: Dumping and Loading Data
- SQL statements versus delimited data
- Parameters affecting dump performance
- Parameters affecting load performance
- Exercises: Dump and load performance
Session 13: PARTITIONED TABLES
- Partitioned tables concepts
- Range partitioning
- Hash partitioning
- Key partitioning
- List partitioning
- Composite partitioning or subpartitioning
- Partition Pruning
- Exercises: Partitioned Table Performance