In the context of a database, optimisation refers to the process of the query optimiser selecting the best query plan to execute.
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How to determine if an Index is required or necessary
I've been running an auto-index tool on our MS SQL database (I modified a script originating from Microsoft that looks at the index statistics tables - Automated Auto Indexing). From the stats, I now ...
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Insert-heavy InnoDB table won't use all my CPU
I have a packet log database, which is almost never queried. It just needs to be fast on inserts. I'm using InnoDB because I'd like to maintain ACID compliance, since even losing a single packet could ...
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Scheduled optimization of tables in MySQL InnoDB
What is the best way to schedule automatic optimization of tables in a MySQL InnoDB database? Can I use events for example? I have recently had a big performance issue (when querying) with one of the ...
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16 Cores 12 GB RAM server MySql Configuration - my.cnf
The server takes 20+ seconds (wait time/slow IO response time) to response to a HTTP request even with memcached and APC installed. I believe this has something to do with MYSQL since the site as lots ...
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MySQL: Index when joining to tables not being used (Performance optimizing question)
I need to optimize the following query:
SELECT /* [things omitted] */ articles.blogpost_id, articles.id AS articleid
FROM blogposts
JOIN articles ON articles.blogpost_id = blogposts.id
WHERE ...
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Suddenly Slow Execution Plan for Stored Proc
I'm trying to understand an issue we're having with SQL Server 2000. We are a moderately transactional website and we have a stored proc called sp_GetCurrentTransactions which accepts a customerID, ...
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Logical operators OR AND in condition and order of conditions in WHERE
Let's examine these two statements:
IF (CONDITION 1) OR (CONDITION 2)
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IF (CONDITION 3) AND (CONDITION 4)
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If CONDITION 1 is TRUE, will CONDITION 2 be checked?
If CONDITION 3 is FALSE, will ...
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Analysing A Query Plan
Why is the following query slow?
select count(*)
from [dbo].[mt_dispatch_link]
, [dbo].[_mt_dispatch] [_mt_dispatch]
where (mt_dispatch_link.contract_id_1 = _mt_dispatch.contract_id
...
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MySQL Query Optimization : Indexing and Pagination
I'm adding pagination to my 'latest news' php script and running in to an issue.
SELECT sid, title, time, bodytext, author, url FROM news WHERE approved=1 ORDER BY time desc LIMIT $start, $limit
I ...
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I've got 16GB of ram, how should I configure MySQL Server?
I've got a dedicated production server with multiple cpus and 16GB of ram.
I would like to know how can I configure it better to take advantage of the server resources for better performance because ...
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Is it possible to increase query performance on a narrow table with millions of rows?
I have a query that is currently taking an average of 2500ms to complete. My table is very narrow, but there are 44 million rows. What options do I have to improve performance, or is this as good as ...
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Optimization: Moving variable declarations to the top of your procedure
While working on optimizing some stored procedures, I sat down with the DBA and went through some sprocs with high blocking and/or high read/write activity.
One thing the DBA mentioned was I should ...
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How do Application Like Yelp Retrieve distance information from data base efficiently
For example, say I have a table:
Business(BusinessID, Lattitude, Longitude)
All are indexed of course. Also there are 1 million records
Say I want to find businesses closest to 106,5, for example, ...
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Why is Clustered Index Scan Number of Executions so high?
I have two similar queries that generate the same query plan, except that one query plan executes a Clustered Index Scan 1316 times, while the other executes it 1 time.
The only difference between ...
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MySQL: Improve performance for one row insert into table with unique constraint
I have a table with ~ 40 mil records, with a unique index on the url collumn, of type varchar(255).
Now the insert speed is about 30/s, is this expected? how could I improve it?
I can't use bulk ...
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How do I force a JOIN to use a specific index in MySQL?
I have a query that JOINs 2 tables; lineitem and part,
select
sum(l_extendedprice* (1 - l_discount)) as revenue
from
lineitem force index for join (l_pk),
part
where
(
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How to Correctly Estimate the Average Number of I/O Operations my RAID 10 disk can offer?
The average Input/Output Operations per Second a disk can sustain is a very important factor in the tuning of MySQL / InnoDB databases, as it drives the speed with which Dirty InnoDB Buffer Pool pages ...
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Is there a way to hint to query optimizer to MySQL which constraints should be done first?
This is my current query:
SELECT BusinessID as ID,
111151.29341326*SQRT(pow(-6.186751-X(LatLong),2)+pow(106.772835-Y(LatLong),2)*0.98838574205337) AS Distance from
(
SELECT *
FROM
...
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Slow Queries Not Logging
I am attempting to enable slow query logging on our server in order to identify any queries that could use optimization. Sounds simple enough, however my file is not being written to. I get no errors ...
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Why does MySQL only sometimes use my index for a range query?
I have a table of IP address ranges and their country, here is the structure:
CREATE TABLE `geoIP` (
`startBlock` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`endBlock` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL ...
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MySQL query 'going away' on executing INSERT ON DUPLICATE UPDATE statement with a 12524 character blob
I have a mysql insert on update query like so
insert into table (col1, col2, col3) values (1,2,'huge blob with 12524 chars') on duplicate key update col3 = 'huge blob with 12524 chars';
col1, col2 ...
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In MySQL, should I add an index even if the query that scans the table is only ran once a month?
Concretely, is it worth it to add an index to a query that scans the table of a mysql database,
even if that index would only be used once a month?
For example, having a users a table and then ...
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optimize big sql query
My query has to return a statistics for example for march containing productname and price and its sidedishes (1:n relation) with the right price of each sidedish and the right tax for each sidedish ...
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Optimising MySQL query with lots of self-joins
I have an entity_relationship table that describes relationships between entities. Each relationship will have 2+ entities involved.
In some cases it can be said that one entity is a constituent of a ...
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Which update is faster using join or sequential?
My this question is in sequence of my previous question I asked.
I could write two solutions using Stored Procedure instead of trigger or nested-query .
Both use a helper function ...
