MySQL Internals
This is the MySQL Internals guide. Formerly, it used to be available here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en
The guide consists of:
A Guided Tour of the MySQL Source Code Coding Guidelines Support for Plug-Ins Locking Transaction management The Optimizer Important Algorithms and Structures File Formats How MySQL Performs Different Selects How MySQL Transforms Subqueries MySQL Client/Server Protocol Stored Programs Prepared Statements and Stored Routines Re-execution Result Postprocessing Procedures Replication Online Backup MyISAM Storage Engine InnoDB Storage Engine Writing a Custom Storage Engine Test Synchronization Porting to Other Systems Error Messages MySQL Source Code Distribution InnoDB Source Code Distribution
