Archive for the ‘mysql’ Category

Great blog on MySQL performance …

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Some great stuff on getting the best performance out of MySQL …
MySQL Performance Blog

I have just been reading this …
ORDER BY … LIMIT Performance Optimization. Pagination is used on just about every site I work on - that article is great on speeding up queries using ORDER BY and LIMIT.

Having problems importing a large MySQL database? Try this …

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Bigdump is a PHP script that staggers the import of a large MySQL dump. It processes a small chunk and then refreshes. This continues until the database is fully imported. This is great for hosts that don’t give you access to ssh or who place restrictions on file uploads or server execution times.

The only thing to configure is the database host, user, and password. Simply upload the dump file to the same directory as the bigdump file (use FTP or the built-in uploader) and then process that file.

Killing MySQL Database Perormance

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Great presentation reviewing how to kill database performance.

How not to optimize a MySQL query

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Response to a blog post on MySQL optimization. Has some good comments on using (or rather avoiding use of) SQL_SMALL_RESULT, HIGH/LOW_PRIORITY, and INSERT DELAYED. STRAIGHT_JOIN.

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PHP and MySQL Optimization

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A list featuring a few very simple tips for optimizing php/mysql applications …

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