Administration
6 resources — topics Administration
Learning MySQL, 2nd Edition
A hands-on introduction to MySQL for beginners — covers installation, queries, and basic administration.
MySQL Concurrency
A guide to locking and transactions in MySQL — row and gap locks, metadata locks, isolation levels, and how to diagnose lock contention and deadlocks with the Performance and Information Schemas.
MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition
Practical recipes for solving common MySQL problems — from data manipulation to stored procedures and replication.
MySQL Reference Manual
Oracle's official, continuously updated documentation for MySQL Server — installation, SQL syntax, the InnoDB storage engine, replication, security, and every configuration option, covering all currently maintained MySQL versions.
Percona Database Performance Blog
Percona's company blog — practical, technical articles on MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB performance, tuning, troubleshooting, and operations, written mainly by Percona's own engineers.
TiDB Documentation
PingCAP's official documentation for TiDB — installation and cluster administration, the SQL reference, the MySQL-protocol compatibility notes, data migration from MySQL, and performance tuning, maintained across dev and stable release lines.