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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide
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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

by Chintan Mehta, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah, Ravi Shah
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Optimizing the database

What is the most important factor in making the database perform at the optimum speed? The answer is, basic database design. The following is a checklist to keep an eye on for database design:

  • The database columns have to be of the right data types. Tables must have appropriate columns for the purposes to be served. Applications that have frequent operations to be performed on the database have many tables with fewer columns, whereas applications that analyze large amounts of data have limited tables with many columns.
  • As we learned in one of the previous chapters, database indexing plays an important role in enhancing query performance. So, it is important to have correct indexes in place for query execution efficiency. ...
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