tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31421954.post8072298254487913425..comments2023-10-30T08:23:12.960-07:00Comments on mySQL DBA, Architecture, Dev, Scale, HA, Code : Review of MySQL Admin Cookbook from PACKT PublishingDathan Pattishallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00356367514107959723noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31421954.post-33819417664714056312010-04-14T07:16:42.084-07:002010-04-14T07:16:42.084-07:00Thanks a lot for this differentiated review. Just ...Thanks a lot for this differentiated review. Just to be clear, I do not want to argue about anything, just provide some background on why things in the book are the way they are. In the end, everyone has to decide for herself, whether a book serves their needs or not :-)<br /><br />The publisher asked us to do lots of screen shots to illustrate the book and make it feel "lighter weight" than it would have been with lots and lots of text. I agree with you that command line stuff tends to be more stable over time, however I'd say that in most cases slightly changed GUIs over newer versions of software do not make them generally unsuitable. As for your Eclipse example, even though there are some changes to the chrome, the general concepts (perspectives, views, tabs) are still applicable and have been form the earliest versions.<br />Nevertheless, in general I see your point.<br /><br />I also agree with you in that this is not a book for application or SQL optimization. This however was never the focus. Instead, the concept was to provide readers with a means to look at the TOC, scan through the recipe titles and see if one matches their needs of the moment. Getting the task done quickly was the priority; that's why in all the recipes we have the "How to do it" section first, and only after that, if readers care, they can read an explanation of what they just did. In general this seemed a little suspicious to me at first, too, because before I apply any recipe to my servers, I definitely want to understand what the stuff is going to do and how and why. But at this point we had to adhere to the general style of the Packt Cookbook series.<br /><br />Also I would have liked more background information on most topics, but we already overshot the initial 300 page limit the publisher had set, so we were reluctant, but needed to cut down on some background material.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Daniel SchnellerDaniel Schnellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10703859800169283952noreply@blogger.com