Some time ago, a customer had a performance issue with an internal process. He was comparing, finding, and reporting the rows that were different between two tables. This is simple if you use a LEFT JOIN and an
IS NULL comparison over the second table in the WHERE clause, but what if the column could be […]
Since MySQL 5.7.5, we have been able to resize dynamically the InnoDB Buffer Pool. This new feature also introduced a new variable — innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size — which defines the chunk size by which the buffer pool is enlarged or reduced. This variable is not dynamic and if it is incorrectly configured, could lead to undesired […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at using hints to analyze queries.
There are a lot of things that you can do wrong when writing a query, which means that there a lot of things that you can do to make it better. From my personal experience there are two things you should review first:
The table join […]
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In this post, we’ll look at how to improve queries using generated columns and ProxySQL instead of implementing a referenced table.
Developers and architects don’t always have the time or complete information to properly analyze and design a database. That is why we see tables with more fields than needed, or with incorrect types. The […]
A lot of things have been said about UUID, and storing UUID in an optimized way. Now that we have generated columns, we can store the decomposed information inside the UUID and merge it again with generated columns. This blog post demonstrates this process.
First, I used a simple table with one char field that I called […]
