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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

You're reading from   MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide Effective guide to administering high-performance MySQL 8 solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395199
Length 510 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chintan Mehta Chintan Mehta
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Subhash Shah Subhash Shah
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Preface 1. An Introduction to MYSQL 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Upgrading MySQL 8 3. MySQL 8 – Using Programs and Utilities 4. MySQL 8 Data Types 5. MySQL 8 Database Management 6. MySQL 8 Storage Engines 7. Indexing in MySQL 8 8. Replication in MySQL 8 9. Partitioning in MySQL 8 10. MySQL 8 – Scalability and High Availability 11. MySQL 8 – Security 12. Optimizing MySQL 8 13. Extending MySQL 8 14. MySQL 8 Best Practices and Benchmarking 15. Troubleshooting MySQL 8 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Challenges in scaling MySQL 8

We have seen how scaling works and the advantages and purpose of scaling in the previous topic. When we start working with scaling in MySQL 8, what type of challenges will we face, and what steps need to be kept in mind while we work towards scaling? We have to account for if we are doing scaling and the master server fails, limits are reached, read and write operations are not able to handle the requests of the application, or while re-platforming the database. Scaling is not an easy task; it needs to ensure it is able to handle increasing transactions without any difficulty. At the time of performing the scaling we need to keep in mind many points, such as the write and read operation limits in the master and slave servers. Database load balancing is one of the approaches that help reduce the traffic of the transaction, but again it needs perfection...

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