Welcome

Changelog

• 2016-09-26: Initial Release

About the Author

Morgan Tocker is the Product Manager for the MySQL Server at Oracle. He has previously worked in a variety of roles including Support, Training and Community. Morgan is based out of Toronto, Canada.

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Acknowledgements

• Thank you to the MySQL Optimizer team for providing diagrams of the Server Architecture, Cost model and Query Optimization.
• Thank you to Chrissy Cutting for Copy Editing.

Important

Examples are based on the world sample database. It can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html