December 2002
Beginner
640 pages
16h 41m
English
Now that you've had a tour of the principal things influencing database performance, it's time to spend a little time looking at the commands MySQL offers for improving the speed of your queries and the design of your tables.
You heard previously that it's usually wise to add indexes to a table. In fact, if you are working with relatively large tables, the use of indexes is one of the biggest influencers of overall database performance.
You've read some rules-of-thumb about where to apply indexes—such as wherever a column is named in a WHERE clause, or where that column may be used as part of a join. But how can you be sure that you've applied them correctly? ...