Actually, version 2 of this book is far better: http://http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101718/ First it covers the most recent versions of MySQL, which is important since much was changed performance and architecture wise. Second, I found it explains the architecture and concepts much better. Gwen On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:06 PM, William Muriithi <william.muriithi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew, > > This book will not disappoint you > > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003067 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l