Indeed book now is in production and is available for preorder on amazon.com – you can use link on the side to get where.
It should be out in mid June – about a month from now.

But I am REALLY looking forward to reading it when it does become available. I have several customers all using MySQL version 5 and I’d love to get the most out of these applications.

Thanks for all of the great work in advance, and for sharing your knowledge.

Dave

As English is not your first language, will you ensure your writing is edited?

Either way, I’m very much looking forward to your update of this book!

To make it clear I did not work on the First edition. In fact this new edition have completely new set of authors.

The Query Optimization chapter was rewritten and has much more info though this is something you always would want more. I guess you could easily write book on advanced query optimization alone

I read the first edition of the book. I was wondering where I could direct feedback. I thought the chapters on setting up replication and earlier chapters on the layout, hardware/software considerations, and how the query optimizer engine works were very good. However, I felt the chapter on query optimization was a little thin/weak.

It was not very clear how you would go about optimizing a query using desc/explain. Most of your examples are very limited and do not have a real world application. Not many of us are running queries on single tables that contain 10k or less rows.

I think the query optimization chapter could benefit greatly by testing it against a real-world database that contains a table with contacts/customers and have that table linked to a couple other tables by its primary key. The other tables could be items like sales, incident/rma, preferences. Then have examples of querying the contacts based on some kind of information in the foreign tables, or querying for information in a foreign table that is filtered by multiple fields in the foreign table and contacts table.

Examples of when to use joins over the where clause would also be helpful.

I would also enjoy a discussion of a query that is filtering on multiple fields and how you would build an index for it. Having a situation where the index would not include all the fields and why would also be very informative.

Thanks for your consideration.

I can’t wait for the new edition.
I am very new to MySQL but have 15+ years experience on Oracle, and proprietary database like FAME, Vision etc and I am digging a lot in MySQL and doing performance runs right now.

If you are looking for someone like me to review I would love to do it.