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MySQL Phrasebook

Sams Publishing and Developer's Library presents this pocket guide jam-packed with useful and essential code "phrases" for the MySQL developer's everyday use. This book contains code so flexible that it can be easily adapted to the reader's needs and fills the need for a short, functional, to-the-point reference for MySQL. It's perfect for users comfortable with a language, but not yet conversant with the code.
MySQL Clustering

This is the official guide to implementing and administering MySQL's high-availability clustering technology and contains information about installing, administering and troubleshooting a MySQL database cluster.
Securing HP NonStop Servers in an Open Systems World

HP NonStop Servers are used by Financial, Medical, Manufacturing enterprises where there can be no down time. Securing HP NonStop Servers in an Open Systems World: OSS, TCP/IP, and SQL takes a wide angle view of NonStop Server use. This book addresses protection of the Open Systems Services environment, network interfaces including TCP/IP and standard SQL databases. It lays out a roadmap of changes since our first book HP has made to Safeguard, elaborating on the advantages and disadvantages of implementing each new version. Even the security aspects of managing Operating System upgrades are given attention. Auditors, security policy makers, information security administrators and system managers will find the practical information they need for putting security principles into practice to meet industry standards as well as compliance regulations.
Understanding MySQL Internals

The core of Understanding MySQL Internals begins with an Architecture Overview that provides a brief introduction of how the different components of MySQL work together. You then learn the steps for setting up a working compilable copy of the code that you can change and test at your pleasure. Other sections of the book cover:
- Core server classes, structures, and API
- The communication protocol between the client and the server
- Configuration variables, the controls of the server; includes a tutorial on how to add your own
- Thread-based request handling -- understanding threads and how they are used in MySQL
- An overview of MySQL storage engines
- The storage engine interface for integrating third-party storage engines
- The table lock manager
- The parser and optimizer for improving MySQL's performance
- Integrating a transactional storage engine into MySQL
- The internals of replication



