Explore MySQL: A Beginner’s Journey into Database Internals
🌟 Explore MySQL: A Beginner-Friendly Course (50 Lessons)
A step-by-step journey to help you understand how MySQL works from the inside out.
🎓 About the Course
This course is designed for developers, beginners, and anyone curious about what goes on behind the scenes in MySQL. You’ll start with simple SQL queries and gradually build up to understanding B+ Trees, buffer pool, transactions, redo/undo logs, isolation levels, and more.
- 🧩 Total Lessons: 50
- 📅 Release Schedule: 5 new lessons every week
- 📌 Full Course Available By: September 1st, 2025
📚 Course Outline
1. Why Databases Are More Than Just Data Storage
2. How a Simple SQL Query Is Executed Behind the Scenes
3. How Is MySQL Structured Internally?
4. Getting to Know Indexes: What They Are and Why They Matter
5. B+ Trees vs. Hash Indexes What Makes MySQL Choose the Tree
6. How MySQL Finds Rows in a B+ Tree: A Step-by-Step Example
7. Understanding B+ Tree Height and Its Performance Impact
8. Avoiding Table Lookups with Covering Indexes
9. The Buffer Pool Exposed: What Really Happens to Your Pages?
10. Inside MySQL Writes: From Buffer Pool to Disk
11. An Introduction to Redo Logs: Their Role and How They Work
12. Understanding Undo Logs: When and Why They're Used
13. What Is MVCC and How Does It Work in MySQL?
14. What Are Binlogs and What Are They Used For?
15. A Deep Yet Simple Look at Transactions
16. How MySQL Guarantees Atomic Transactions
17. What Consistency Means in Databases and How It's Enforced
18. A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Isolation Levels
19. How MySQL Makes Transactions Durable with Logging
20. What Are Checkpoints? How They Help with Durability and Performance
21. Locks in MySQL: An Easy Guide to Types and Use Cases
22. What Is a GAP Lock? Why Is It Confusing?
23. How MySQL Creates a Query Execution Plan
24. Why Some Queries Use Full Index Scans Instead of Ranges
25. A Beginner’s Guide to How JOINs Work in MySQL
26. Why JOINs Often Outperform Correlated Subqueries
27. What Really Happens When You Run an INSERT?
28. What Happens Internally During an UPDATE?
29. What Makes Hotspot Updates a Pain for Performance?
30. What Happens Internally During a DELETE?
31. Why DROP TABLE Can Be Shockingly Fast
32. Why Many Companies Discourage Using DELETE to Remove Data
33、What Causes MySQL to ‘Jitter’?
34. Temporary Files in MySQL: When and Why They're Used
35. What Is Rate Limiting in Databases — and When Does It Matter?
36. Why the First Query Is Often Slow: Understanding Cold Reads
37. Which Is Better: Random or Sequential Primary Keys?
38. Why Even Simple Queries Can Sometimes Be Slow
39. Why Two Similar SQLs Perform Very Differently
40. When and Why Indexes Become Ineffective
41. Does a Covering Index Always Prevent Table Lookups?
42. Pagination Optimization: Avoiding Performance Hits from Large Offsets
43. Read Committed vs Repeatable Read: What Developers Should Know
44. Transaction Isolation: Is It Really Guaranteed?
45. Big Transactions, Big Trouble: What You Should Know
46. Hidden Transaction Misuses That Developers Overlook
47. Common SQL Pitfalls That Kill Performance
48. Must-Know Config Settings That Affect Query Speed
49. How to Use Trace Logs to Diagnose Bottlenecks
50. AI-Powered SQL Debugging: From Execution Plans to Root Causes
📌 Important Notes
🗓️ Lessons are released weekly — 5 per week.
🎯 The full course will be available by September 1st, 2025.
⚠️ Please note: This is a digital product with instant access upon purchase.
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Explore MySQL from the inside out and gain a powerful understanding of its core design.