My favorite advanced MySQL book is the O'Reilly one by Jeremy Zawodny (formerly the chief MySQL dude at Yahoo, now of Craigslist): http://www.amazon.com/High-P

My favorite advanced MySQL book is the O'Reilly one by Jeremy Zawodny (formerly the chief MySQL dude at Yahoo, now of Craigslist): http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-MySQL-Jeremy-Zawodny/dp/0596003064 http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-MySQL-Jeremy-Zawodny/... You can learn the basics of MySQL online or through just about any book, but once you've gotten beyond that and want to learn more, this book is loads better than all the others.