My SQL 5 6 - Online Operations and Improved Diagnostics
summary
MySQL 5.6 introduces online DDL so many ALTERs (creating/dropping indexes, some column changes) run without blocking reads/writes and support LOCK=NONE / ALGORITHM=INPLACE to refuse blocking operations. It adds buffer-pool dump/restore, export/import InnoDB tablespaces, nonblocking logfile resizing, GTIDs and per-schema multithreaded replication. Diagnostics add EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON, optimizer_trace, and a performance_schema on by default with sub-5% overhead; PS queries report index usage, slow-query aggregates, and real working-set measurements that cut CI times (example 40→14 minutes).
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and development
- 2:16MySQL development model
- 6:22Operational enhancements
- 17:45Diagnostics and performance
- 37:49Information schema and tuning
- 40:36Future outlook and Q&A








