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SQL Uniqueness Across Multiple Tables

I have two SQL tables: Users and clients. Every row in the users table has a set of clients in the clients table, linked by the users table id field and the clients table user_id field. The users ...
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Very Slow MySQL Queries, even with indexes

I have a relatively large 4-deep relational data setup like this: client_applications: (potentially 1,000's of records)    - ...    - account_id    - ...
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Tablestructure for fast inserts/deletes with foreign keys

Current Situation We have a table called c with ca. 300,000 rows. In this table we store the competitors for a specific product. Example: id | competitors | some infos about competitor | ...
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What MySQL storage engine and table schema should I use?

I am making a web project and I created necessary and the most important table, but I am not sure that I did it right. In this site users will post data like text, picture, text's category, etc. I ...
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Choosing MyISAM over InnoDB for these project requirements; and long term options

Sorry for the long post, but I had to give as much info as possible to make this very vague question more specific. My project's aim is to let users search a (huge) database of variety of products. ...
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Mysql error while creating FK

here is structure of both tables category table CREATE TABLE category ( `catID` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `title` varchar(60) NOT NULL, `created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT ...
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Proper tuning for 30GB InnoDB table on server with 48GB RAM

I have a 30GB 15M rows InnoDB MySQL 5.5.15 table. It is running on a server with many other MyISAM tables (300GB db). The system has 48GB RAM. Besides the default configurations, I've changed the ...
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MySQL table locks solution -> InnoDb / Partitions

I'm experiencing many table locks in a MyISAM MySQL table that is pretty big (Constx10xGB and 15M rows). It's mainly caused due many heavy inserts. My current thoughts to optimize: Changing to ...
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Should I put followers_no & following_no & product_no & last_login and etc in the user table? Won't updates cause fragmentation on the table?

I have a table for users in a social networking site. I want it to be efficient from ground up. If I put mentioned fields on the table then I have to update user's table on each changes. Should I have ...
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Serialized objects vs multiple tables

What would be the best way to store several entries in a database, each containing a list of other entries? An example of this would be a table of receipts, where each receipt has some information ...
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Need advice for a 'tag' table design

My website has different content types. All content types should be tag-able (except if specified in the model, whatever). I can think of 2 options for my design: 2 tables option : 1 table for the ...
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Is one-to-one relationship normalized?

Consider we have a large set of statistical data for a record; e.g. 20-30 INT columns. Is it better to keep the entire set in one table as they all belong to a record OR creating a another table ...
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Do I have duplicate key indexes?

CREATE TABLE relations ( object_id BIGINT(20) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, object_term BIGINT(20) NOT NULL, UNIQUE KEY link(object_id, object_term), CONSTRAINT fk_term FOREIGN KEY(object_term) ...
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Will this Database design logic work and what should be used?

A few weeks ago I had a client of mine ask me about how complex it would be to develop a custom CRM application similar to the one being provided by highrisehq.com What he essentially wants to do is ...