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I'm a web developer looking to improve my MySQL skillset. Basic CRUD, joins, etc are all pretty par for the course; I'm looking to learn more about efficiency, avoiding bottlenecks, optimizing queries, and lots more awesome stuff that I don't know the words to explain.

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If you're looking for performance related things and getting down into the nitty gritty on the storage engines, optimizer, etc, High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition is the way to go.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101718/?CMP=AFC-ak_book&ATT=High+Performance+MySQL

Grant Limberg
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CMS
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Here are the SQL books on my bookshelf:

Bill Karwin
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Željko Živković
Thanks! I'll hop over to Amazon now and check this out.
ironkeith
I have to second this recommendation of Pro Mysql (I even try to market this book on my blog). Apart from being extremely useful, I found this book very readable. Another new book that is getting reviews is the MySql Administrators Bible.
DBMarcos99
Yada