- Secure your connections to the MySQL server
 - Use prepared statements
 - Guard against SQL injection
 - Investigate and handle errors and warnings
 - Create database-driven web applications
 - Enable fast text search
 - Respond to data changes and events
 - Modify table data
 - Use temporal and numeric functions in expressions
 - Write queries that contain nested queries
 - Safeguard concurrent queries by using transactions
 - Find and fix poorly-performing queries
 - Use NoSQL and JSON document stores
 - Write stored programs
 - Create MySQL client programs using Connectors
 - Gain an understanding of the MySQL Cloud Service 