Comments on: What would make MySQL Multiple Queries Usable ? http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/09/05/what-would-make-mysql-multiple-queries-usable/ Percona's MySQL & InnoDB performance and scalability blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:45:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrisi http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/09/05/what-would-make-mysql-multiple-queries-usable/comment-page-1/#comment-164286 Andrisi Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:21:07 +0000 http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/09/05/what-would-make-mysql-multiple-queries-usable/#comment-164286 What you suggest with the optimization thing is related to a fundamental weakness of SQL: that it can return only one dataset per query, even tough you sometimes need more than one related datasets, datasets that could be generated at once. Returning multiple datasets for one query would help the server too - in exactly the same way as you're suggesting above. And maybe that would be easier to implement than finding similr parts in queries submitted in a batch. See: http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=358 (by me) What you suggest with the optimization thing is related to a fundamental weakness of SQL: that it can return only one dataset per query, even tough you sometimes need more than one related datasets, datasets that could be generated at once. Returning multiple datasets for one query would help the server too – in exactly the same way as you’re suggesting above. And maybe that would be easier to implement than finding similr parts in queries submitted in a batch.

See: http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=358 (by me)

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