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How can I improve this query?

About a year back I introduced a query which returns a sort of "Customers Also Purchased" data-set. At the time it ran reasonably fast however, as of late it's become very slow, sometimes taking up to ...
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Is MariaDB a suitable drop in replacement for MySQL on a standard LAMP stack?

I've been wondering lately what (if any) are the improvements available in MariaDB over 'conventional' MySQL? I understand that where platform interoperability and/or backwards compatibility may be ...
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How do I properly perform a MySQL bake-off?

I want to performance test (aka bake-off) MySQL server rpm against some other forks such as Percona server, MariaDB, and possibly some others. I'm hoping that by asking this question I can better ...