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MySQL Storage Engine (Table Types)

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This chapter covers the MySQL architecture, locking and concurrency, and transactions. It also discusses how to select the right engine and looks at each of MySQL's storage engines in detail. (From the book <em>High Performance MYSQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication and Load Balancing</em>, by Jeremy Zawodny and Derek Balling, ISBN: 0596-003064, O'Reilly Media, 2004.)</fieldset>