General Guidelines on Bulk Changes

This section provides a tutorial on how to install MySQL database server on macOS.

Here are some general guidelines on making bulk changes in MySQL database.

1. Create a backup copy of the database, before making bulk changes.

2. Close all client connections to reduce data blocks.

3. Turn off all server loggings, if not needed.

4. Drop indexes that are not used in the insert/delete/update statement.

5. Turn off "autocommit" and run COMMIT at the end of the change.

6. Turn off "unique_checks", if you know your changes will not violate any data uniqueness.

7. Turn off "foreign_key_checks", if you know your changes will not violate any foreign key rules.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of SQL

 MySQL Introduction and Installation

 Introduction of MySQL Programs

 PHP Programs and MySQL Server

 Perl Programs and MySQL Servers

 Java Programs and MySQL Servers

 Datatypes and Data Literals

 Operations and Expressions

 Character Strings and Bit Strings

 Commonly Used Functions

 Table Column Types for Different Types of Values

 Using DDL to Create Tables and Indexes

 Using DML to Insert, Update and Delete Records

 Using SELECT to Query Database

 Window Functions for Statistical Analysis

 Use Index for Better Performance

 Transaction Management and Isolation Levels

 Locks Used in MySQL

 Defining and Calling Stored Procedures

 Variables, Loops and Cursors Used in Stored Procedures

 System, User-Defined and Stored Procedure Variables

 MySQL Server Administration

 Storage Engines in MySQL Server

 InnoDB Storage Engine - Primary and Secondary Indexes

 Performance Tuning and Optimization

Bulk Changes on Large Tables

General Guidelines on Bulk Changes

 Bulk Delete with a Simple Condition

 Delete Records That Are Not Referenced

 Reset AUTO_INCREMENT Value on Large Tables

 MySQL Server on macOS

 Installing MySQL Server on Linux

 Connection, Performance and Second Instance on Linux

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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