Hands-On MySQL Administration
A practical guide to running MySQL on premises and in the cloud — installation, configuration, backup and recovery, replication, high availability, monitoring, and security — for working DBAs.
Hands-On MySQL Administration: Managing MySQL on Premises and in the Cloud covers the day-to-day work of a MySQL DBA on self-managed servers and in the cloud. Its backup and recovery material spans mysqldump, the MySQL Shell dump utilities, point-in-time recovery, and binary log management, and its security material covers encryption with keyring components, default table encryption, and redo log encryption, alongside installation, configuration, replication, and high availability.
It is written for intermediate to advanced readers who already run MySQL in production. Published by O’Reilly in 2024, at about 600 pages.
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