Optimizing for Query Speed MySQL / Optimization
Optimzing your queries can help them run more efficiently, which can save a significant amount of time. This article covers index optimization and index usage and discusses general principles that are useful for optimizing queries to run more efficiently.
Optimizing MySQL Queries and Indexes MySQL / Optimization
Learn how to optimize queries and indexes, and potentially speed up your application many times over.The database is just too slow. Queries are queuing up, backlogs growing, users being refused connection. Management is ready to spend millions on "upgrading" to some other system, when the problem is really that MySQL is simply not being used properly. Badly defined or non-existent indexes are one of the primary reasons for poor performance, and fixing these can often lead to phenomenal improvements.
SQL SELECT Query Statements with GROUP MySQL / General Guides
A collection of 20 FAQs on MySQL SELECT query statements and basic features. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on selecting rows and columns from tables and views; sorting and counting query outputs; grouping outputs and applying group functions.
MySQL Introductions MySQL / General Guides
This is just a query tutorial. A query, for those of you who really are just starting, is a batch of commands, or a group of commands.
Improve The Performance Of Your MySQL Server MySQL / General Guides
MySQL is a rock solid, lighting fast database server which has been designed for two factors speed and performance. It is the Ferrari of databases: Light weight, fast and Built for the high speed tracks! Learn how to get the best performance from you MySQL database server.
Optimizing MySQL, Hardware and the Mysqld Variables MySQL / Optimization
Like a grand prix driver starting at the back of the track, if you don't do things well from the beginning, and prepare hard for the race, it doesn't matter how well you do once the race has started. You're at the back and are never going to win. So, with MySQL, it's extremely important to start off on the right foot, and that means compiling MySQL properly. The specific options you use depends on your setup of course, but here are some pointers to get you started.
Introduction to MYSQL MySQL / General Guides
Mysql which stands for My Structured Query Language is a database application that allows us to store data that can be fetched and displayed on web pages.
MySQL Date Queries MySQL / General Guides
Rather than querying your database and then using PHP or Perl to calculate values based on a certain date range, you can build the date range inquiry directly into the query statement.
What is SQL? MySQL / General Guides
What is SQL? SQL stands for Structured Query Language and is the lingua franca in the database world. SQL is a standard that is used by all database vendors and programmers to define, extract and access the information that is stored in databases.
How to Optimize Rank Data in MySQL MySQL / Optimization
Suppose you need to calculate constantly-changing information based on constantly-updated information in one or more tables. Are you stuck doing everything in multiple expensive queries? By no means. How careful denormalization and query construction can lower your database load and simplify your code.
Optimize MySQL tables for speed MySQL / Optimization
MySQL logo Just like you need to defrag and check your file system, it's important to do the same thing with MySQL tables. If you don't, you might end up with slow and corrupted database tables. Follow this easy tutorial to set up an automatic optimization for your db.