There is one bug, or “missing feature” in MySQL Optimizer which may give you hard time causing performance problems which may be hard to track down, it is using only part of the index when full index can be used or using shorter index while there is longer index available. The last item is yet [...]
Trying Archive Storage Engine
November 12, 2006 By 7 Comments
Today I noticed one of server used for web request profiling stats logging is taking about 2GB per day for logs, which are written in MyISAM table without indexes. So I thought it is great to try how much archive storage engine could help me in this case.
Duplicate indexes and redundant indexes
August 17, 2006 By 38 Comments
About every second application I look at has some tables which have redundant or duplicate indexes so its the time to speak about these a bit. So what is duplicate index ? This is when table has multiple indexes defined on the same columns. Sometimes it is indexes with different names, sometimes it is different [...]
