The 2nd edition of High Performance MySQL might interest you: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596101716 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596101716 It covers, among tons of

The 2nd edition of High Performance MySQL might interest you: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596101716 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596101716 It covers, among tons of other stuff, some new features in MySQL 5.1 that make partitioning easier.