A Survey of MySQL Database Administration Techniques and Best Practices

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system that is most popular and recognized by its reliability, flexibility, performance, as well as high security properties. With growing data-driven application use in the healthcare sectors, among others, such as finance, e-commerce, and cloud computing, MySQL database management becomes more of a best practice in terms of system upkeep, information quality, and efficiency. This paper provides an in-depth overview of MySQL database administration methods and best practices including its architecture, storage, transaction management, security, performance optimization, backup and recovery mechanisms, and high-availability solutions. The major issues related to the management of large-scale, distributed, and cloud-based MySQL environments, such as scalability, data security, and a combination with analytical workloads, are addressed. The paper focuses on the significance of monitoring, indexing, query optimization, replication, and automated fault-tolerance solutions to ensure the high performance and reliability. This survey offers viable recommendations to database administrators, system architects and organizations that aim to design secure, scale and high-performance MySQL database systems to support contemporary and high-volume data-intensive applications.