This book is meant to be a practical guide for anyone deploying a missioncritical
application that uses MySQL as a database backend. No book
can answer every question on a subject, but it is my hope that for the questions
it does not answer, it will give you enough background and direction to enable
you to find the answer quickly through your own research. As such, this book is
not a substitute—rather it is a companion—for the MySQL online manual
(www.mysql.com/doc).
