I already wrote once about hosting troubles which we had with this site a while back. Today we had another trouble to one of the European hit servers for ClickAider project. We had purchased this 1and1 server few months ago, before we were running into troubles and as it was running well and because we [...]
MySQL Performance – eliminating ORDER BY function
October 17, 2007 By 6 Comments
One of the first rules you would learn about MySQL Performance Optimization is to avoid using functions when comparing constants or order by. Ie use indexed_col=N is good. function(indexed_col)=N is bad because MySQL Typically will be unable to use index on the column even if function is very simple such as arithmetic operation. Same can [...]
MySQL Northern European Customer Conference
October 17, 2007 By 7 Comments
Yesterday I’ve attended MySQL Customers Conference in London. This event is much smaller size than Users Conference (one day and about 170 people attending) and surely less geeky – there were no one from MySQL Development Support or Consulting teams and Sales Engineers were as close as you could get. Though Anders Karlsson and Ivan [...]
