The Essential Guide to SQL Statement Optimization Written by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements is filled with detailed explanations and practical examples that can be applied immediately to improve database and application performances. Featuring a step-by-step approach to SQL optimization, this Oracle Press book helps you to analyze and tune problematic SQL statements. Identify the essential analysis commands for gathering and diagnosing issues Learn how different index theories are applied and represented in MySQL Plan and execute informed SQL optimizations Create MySQL indexes to improve query performance Master the MySQL query execution plan Identify key configuration variables that impact SQL execution and performance Apply the SQL optimization lifecycle to capture, identify, confirm, analyze, and optimize SQL statements and verify the results Improve index utilization with covering indexes and partial indexes Learn hidden performance tips for improving index efficiency and simplifying SQL statements

Ronald Bradford是一位在关系型数据库领域拥有20多年丰富经验的专家。他拥有深厚的专业背景以及10年以上Ingres和Oracle系统的工作知识，在过去12年中他致力于MySQL——世界上最流行的开源数据库的发展。他曾在2009年被提名为MySQL社区成员和2010年的Oracle ACE Director，其咨询领域的专家背景以及多次在国际会议上的发言也为他赢得了广泛的国际知名度。他还是Planet MySQL(2010)最受欢迎的个人MySQL技术博客作者，并且是清华大学出版社引进并出版的《PHP+MySQL专家编程》一书的作者之一。

MySQL在被Oracle公司收购之后成为主要的数据库解决方案，并获得了更多社区推广的机会。Ronald是世界范围的Oracle用户组中最受欢迎的MySQL的受邀发言人，该用户组的范围遍及北美、南美、欧洲以及亚太地区。