Hacking MySQL: Breaking, Optimizing, and Securing MySQL for Your Use Case First Edition

Your MySQL instances are probably broken. Many developers face slow-running queries, issues related to database architecture, replication, or database security-and that's only the beginning. This book will deliver answers to your most pressing MySQL database questions related to performance, availability, or security by uncovering what causes databases to break in the first place.

At its core, this book provides you with the knowledge necessary for you to break your database instances so you can better optimize it for performance and secure it from data breaches. In other words, you'll discover the sorts of actions, minor and major, that degrade databases so you can fix and ultimately preempt them. MySQL sometimes acts according to its own rules, and this book will help you keep it working on your terms.