Apress Blog: MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices

To celebrate the publishing of my new book MySQL 8 Query Performance Tuning, the Apress team invited me (thanks Jonathan and Liz) to write a post for the Apress blog. I decided to write about my top six best practices:

• Be wary of best practices
• Monitor
• Work methodically
• Consider the full stack
• Make small, incremental changes
• Understand the change

Yes, my first best practice is to be wary of best practices. Read why I added that and the other best practices at MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices.