In my last post on database optimization, I focused on improving query performance by optimizing schema - exploring indexing strategies by reading the execution plan. In this post I'll show how different query structures can also have a major impact on performance.
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Archive for October, 2008
Optimizing OR (union) operations in MySQL
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Profiling queries with Zend_Db and optimizing them by hand
Sunday, October 12th, 2008Database performance is one of the major bottlenecks for most web applications. Most web developers are not database experts (and I'm no exception), there are however several basic methods to analyze and optimize database performance without resorting to expert consultants (such as those, whose founders blogs are an invaluable source of MySQL knowledge).
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Octabox launched and I’m back to blogging
Friday, October 10th, 2008I've been super-busy the last couple of months - I've came across a stupendous amount of work that I couldn't refuse in addition to the effort towards the release of my own startup, business platform Octabox. Things are finally calming down, and I'll be getting back to blogging, writing about plenty of things I've learned / implemented / experimented with the last two months.