Quite common beginners mistake is not to understand how indexing works and so index all columns used in the queries…. separately. So you end up with table which has say 20 indexes but all single column ones. This can be spotted with a glance view. If you have queries with multiple column restrictions in WHERE [...]
Rendundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
August 21, 2008 By 15 Comments
So you need to design highly available MySQL powered system… how do you approach that ? Too often I see the question is approached by focusing on expensive hardware which in theory should be reliable. And this really can work quite well for small systems. It is my experience – with quality commodity hardware (Dell,HP,IBM [...]
