Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization: From Novice to Professional (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st, 28 October 2004

MySQL Database Design and Optimization, shows you how to identify, overcome, and avoid gross inefficiencies, and demonstrates how to maximize the many data manipulation features that MySQL has built-in. MySQL Database Design and Optimization explains how to include tests and branching in your queries, how to normalize your database, and how to issue concurrent queries to boost performance, among many other design and optimization topics. If you're building or maintaining any significant application and are using MySQL, this book is for you.