Couple of days ago I was looking for a way to improve update performance for the application and I was replacing single value UPDATE with multiple value REPLACE (though I also saw the same problem with INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE) As I went from 1 value to 3 or 10 in the batch performance [...]
HighLoad 2007 Review
October 6, 2007 By 1 Comment
Almost two weeks have passed since HighLoad 2007 conference in Moscow, Russia so I’m pretty late with feedback and my only excuse I was pretty busy to spare some time for it. Lets start with bright side. The conference had a lot of great sessions by experts in their field. A lot of top Russian [...]
How simple answer are you looking for ?
April 11, 2007 By 5 Comments
I’ve got an interesting comment the other day saying “I’ve heard Jay Pipes saying indexes with cardinality lower than 30% are worthless, true?” That is interesting question and it has different answers depending on who is asking. A lot of people want to hear simple answers to the questions because they would be overwhelmed by [...]
