Admittedly this chapter hasn't been the usual nonstop, action-packed code-fest that you may have become accustomed to by now. But our concentration on these topics—the back up and restoration of MySQL data, the administration of the MySQL access control system, and table checking and repair—has armed us with the tools we'll need in order to set up a MySQL database server that will stand the test of time, not to mention the constant traffic that your site will endure during that period.
In "Advanced SQL", we'll get back to the fun stuff and learn some advanced SQL techniques that make a relational database server do things that you may never have thought possible.