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Course Outline
Introduction
- Overview of MySQL products and services
- MySQL support and service offerings
- Supported operating systems
- Training curriculum paths
- Accessing MySQL documentation and resources
MySQL Architecture
- Understanding the client-server model
- Communication protocols
- The SQL layer
- The storage layer
- How the server supports various storage engines
- Management of memory and disk space by MySQL
- The MySQL plugin interface
System Administration
- Selecting the appropriate MySQL distribution types
- Installing the MySQL Server
- Understanding the 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
- Available clients 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
- Major categories of data types
- Understanding NULL values
- Column attributes
- Character set usage with data types
- Strategies for choosing appropriate data types
Obtaining Metadata
- Methods for accessing metadata
- Structure of INFORMATION_SCHEMA
- Using commands to view metadata
- Differences between SHOW statements and INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables
- The mysqlshow client program
- Using INFORMATION_SCHEMA queries to generate shell commands and SQL statements
Transactions and Locking
- Using transaction control statements to run multiple SQL statements concurrently
- The ACID properties of transactions
- Transaction isolation levels
- Utilizing locking mechanisms to protect transactions
Storage Engines
- Storage engines in MySQL
- InnoDB storage engine
- InnoDB system and file-per-table tablespaces
- NoSQL and the Memcached API
- Efficient configuration of tablespaces
- Using foreign keys to achieve referential integrity
- InnoDB locking
- Features of available storage engines
Partitioning
- Partitioning concepts and their application in MySQL
- Reasons for using partitioning
- Types of partitioning
- Creating partitioned tables
- Subpartitioning
- Obtaining partition metadata
- Modifying partitions to enhance performance
- Storage engine support for partitioning
User Management
- Requirements for user authentication
- Using SHOW PROCESSLIST to monitor running threads
- Creating, modifying, and dropping user accounts
- Alternative authentication plugins
- Requirements for user authorization
- Levels of access privileges for users
- Types of privileges
- Granting, modifying, and revoking user privileges
Security
- Recognizing common security risks
- Security risks specific to MySQL installations
- Addressing security issues and counter-measures for networks, operating systems, file systems, and users
- Data protection strategies
- Using SSL for secure MySQL server connections
- Utilizing SSH for secure remote connections to the MySQL server
- Resources for resolving common security issues
Table Maintenance
- Types of table maintenance operations
- SQL statements for table maintenance
- Client and utility programs for table maintenance
- Maintaining tables for other storage engines
- Exporting and Importing Data
- Exporting Data
- Importing Data
Programming Inside MySQL
- Creating and executing stored routines
- Managing execution security for stored routines
- 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
- Performing controlled failover
- Monitoring and troubleshooting MySQL replication
- Replication with Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs)
Introduction to Performance Tuning
- Using EXPLAIN to analyze queries
- General table optimizations
- Monitoring status variables that impact performance
- Setting and interpreting MySQL server variables
- Overview of Performance Schema
Conclusion
Q&A Session
Requirements
While there are no strict prerequisites, candidates with a foundational understanding of databases will benefit the most from this course.
Audience:
IT professionals aiming to advance their careers as Database Administrators (DBAs) or database support specialists working with MySQL on Linux or Windows platforms.
Format: 40% theoretical instruction, 60% practical hands-on lab exercises
28 Hours
Testimonials (1)
Was carefully tailored to our needs, very responsive to live questions and situations, gave us lots of practice repeating what we were learning.
