Is pro mysql the best book to learn mysql administration?

[oslon]

Here're its table of contents. Can anyone here tell me if there is a better book than this? This book is a huge investment (Costs 50-60$ to me in local currency after taxes, shipping etc.)

[gizmola]

I don't know that there is a best book.  MySQL has been around for a long time, and due to its origin as an open source database with a GPL license, as well as it's relatively unique pluggable engine, it has been extended and forked.  Oracle acquired MySQL and at that point, the original MySQL developer forked the code and created MariaDB.  Percona also has a fork.

So there are now a variety of flavors of "MySQL" with different features and versioning.  Whatever book or resource you might get, you want to be sure it is relatively recent and contains information based on the most recent MySQL releases.

If your focus is administration, there is a lot of general use content in that book.  A book that is more focused on administration like this one might be better.

To be clear, I have no experience with any of these books.  If you have used a Udemy account, and you are patient, you can routinely license courses for under $10 US.  That might be a cheaper way to get similar training.

You might consider starting with youtube and looking for other online resources, and combine that with use of the official MySQL docker instance to experiment and learn.