Tells the why you would do x, not just the syntax

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Book:		High Performance MySQL
Subject:		Tells the why you would do x, not just the syntax
Date:		2009-05-16 08:18:12
From:		Anonymous Reader

Rating: What makes this book so much better than any others I've seen in the last 8 years is its focus on the why, rather than the how. Certainly it will tell you some hows as well, but it always keeps focused on the priorities you should have in mind. Simple example: it quotes an AB trainer saying that the best you can improve performance of your queries with hardware is about 10x. On the other hand, you can often improve it 1000x by optimizing your queries. That is the kind of thing you can tell to your boss and have her understand. I do not mean that there are not a truckload of hows as well in this book - How to set up some benchmarking, major reasons you would pick MyISAM or Innodb, what you can mix and match etc. But the examples always serve their major points. I will never be a DBA, but this book is all I need to fake it.