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Indexing Big Data – NSF Workshop on Research Directions in the Principles of Parallel Computation

Martin.FarachColton

OldSQL Tricks or NewSQL Treats

August 11, 2010

Zardosht.Kasheff

On "Replace Into", "Insert Ignore", Triggers, and Row Based Replication

Zardosht.Kasheff

On "Replace Into", "Insert Ignore", and Secondary Keys

Zardosht.Kasheff

Why "insert … on duplicate key update" May Be Slow, by Incurring Disk Seeks

Zardosht.Kasheff

Making "Insert Ignore" Fast, by Avoiding Disk Seeks

Zardosht.Kasheff

Making "Replace Into" Fast, by Avoiding Disk Seeks

Zardosht.Kasheff

Making Updates Fast, by Avoiding Disk Seeks

Zardosht.Kasheff

Disk seeks are evil, so let’s avoid them, pt. 4

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