Expert MySQL

Charles Bell conducts research in emerging technologies. He is a member of the Oracle MySQL Development team and is the team lead for the MySQL Utilities team. He lives in a small town in rural Virginia with his loving wife. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. Dr. Bell is an expert in the database field and has extensive knowledge and experience in software development and systems engineering. His research interests include 3D printers, microcontrollers, three-dimensional printing, database systems, software engineering, and sensor networks. He spends his limited free time as a practicing Maker focusing on microcontroller projects and refinement of three-dimensional printers. Dr. Bell maintains a blog on his research projects and many other interests. You can find his blog at http://drcharlesbell.blogspot.com/.

Part One: MySQL and the Open Source Revolution.- The Anatomy of a Database System.- A Tour of the MySQL Code Base.- Test Driven MySQL Development.- Part Two: Debugging.- Embedded MySQL.- Building Your Own Storage Handler.- Adding Your Own SQL Commands.- Part Three: Database System Internals.- Internal Query Representation.- Query Optimization.- Query Execution.