recommend MySQL book for developer?

Question

Hello everyone,

I am a developer previously working on SQL Server and Windows platform. I am learning MySQL on Windows platform to feel the power of free and open software, and also spirit of it. :-)

My requirements to learn,

1. I am working on .Net (C#) and native (C++) programming language on Windows platform, I want gurus here recommend me a good book for a beginner of MySQL in such environment for a developer on MySQL, better with the most recent version of MySQL;
2. I also want gurus here recommend me a MySQL administrator book for a beginner on Windows platform, like backup/restore, performance tuning, import/export, security, etc.

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

It's not that much windows-oriented (I've often heard that MySQL was working better on Linux ; don't know if that's true), but the High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More book is quite interesting to read, when it comes to performance.

And even if it's not windows-oriented, the basic ideas about performance, replication, backups, and all that, are not specific to any operating-system, as they mostly relate to MySQL itself.

(Still, som existing tools -- including ones presented in that book -- might be written for Windows...)