MySQL: Performance Tuning Best Practices

Learn where to best focus your attention when tuning the performance of your applications and database servers, and how to effectively find the “low hanging fruit” on the tree of bottlenecks.

Jay Pipes is a co-author of the recently published Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), which covers all of the newest MySQL 5 features, as well as in-depth discussion and analysis of the MySQL server architecture, storage engines, transaction processing, benchmarking, and advanced SQL scenarios.

1 Response to “MySQL: Performance Tuning Best Practices”


  1. 1 Daniel January 17, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Love performance tuning… quite important in my line of work and overly exciting to know more about it and the internals leading DB behavior.
    Thanks for the post, mate.

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