As a MySQL consultant, I keep running into the same two problems: reviewing MySQL configurations and generating realistic test data for validation. So I built two focused MySQL tools to…

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In the last post choosing about the right type; there is a case about quoting the tuple values; that I forgot to mention which is pretty much a common mistake when string data types are used for storing int or float/double representation (well sometimes you need to use string due to length or to avoid [...]

The purpose of this post is to outline a general flow-chart for improving the performance of queryies in MySQL. Much has been written on using EXPLAIN to optimize queries, but there is a whole process that should be followed in order to maximize the effectiveness of query performance tuning. Following is a visual [...]