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Are individual queries faster than joins?

Conceptual question: Are individual queries faster than joins, or: Should I try to squeeze every info I want on the client side into one SELECT statement or just use as many as seems convenient? ...
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InnoDB tuning with 1G of ram limit

I am trying to calculate variable moving averages crossover with variable dates. That is: I want to prompt the user for 3 values and 1 option. The input is through a web front end so I can build/edit ...
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mysql: how many disk seeks were made for a select query

I will fire a select query. I want to know how many disk seeks does that query take. mysql documentation has given formula for full table scan. ...
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How to Correctly Estimate the Average Number of I/O Operations my RAID 10 disk can offer?

The average Input/Output Operations per Second a disk can sustain is a very important factor in the tuning of MySQL / InnoDB databases, as it drives the speed with which Dirty InnoDB Buffer Pool pages ...
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PostgreSQL can't start after tuning some options

I'm having some issues with "too many clients" and I tried to change the max_connections param (currently 100). I tried to set some value like 300, but when I restart the service, I got this ...
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Slow queries to remote PostgreSQL db

I am running a Drupal site that is backed by Postgres. This is my first time running something with Postgres; I come from the MySQL world. For doing dev work on the site, I connect to a VPN and ...
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MySQL 5.5 - determining correct write[read]_io_threads on high-end system?

Specifically dual-CPU 32 core - 128RAM - RAID 10 SSD . Ubuntu 64 server. Heavy Innodb load at times - ~ 2000+ queries per sec. Heavy read and write. Currently we are running on the default ...
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MySQL 5.5 - Innodb - innodb_log_file_size higher than 4GB combined?

When reading online about innodb_log_file_size, it says The combined size of the log files must be less than 4GB So what happens if it needs to be larger? In books and online, it says to set ...
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Mysql 5.5: Optimizing all tables with mysqlcheck - is it useful to run the -check option along with -optimize?

I plan on running 'mysqlcheck --optimize --all-databases' to clear up some fragmentation. Would it be useful to run -check with this option or does the -optimize already take care of that? I am only ...
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tuning feed item's table query with multiple condition

I have a query like this: SELECT * FROM `rss_item` WHERE `feed_id` = 1 and `timestamp` < 1350698635 ORDER BY `rss_item`.`timestamp` ASC MySQL: 5.1; table engine: innodb Explain result: ...
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Tuning query to remove joins for reporting

This is the query I was sent. There is currently no data in the system as I was converting this query from teradata to SQL server. SELECT user_id FROM user_table LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT user_id , ...
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Oracle 10g - Sudden change in execution time for specific query

After the DBAs fiddled with some parameters in our Oracle 10g Production Environment, most queries became a little faster. But a single query (a quite complex one) became dramaticaly slower - it went ...
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InnoDB Performance Tuning

I'm new to database administration so please excuse any omissions of what would seem like basic info to provide for this problem. I'm a RoR developer and our team is currently short a DBA, so we're ...
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What can I do to speed up this SQL Query?

I've created this SQL query with the help of @Dems :-) Here is some detail, I tried to make a SQLFiddle but I kept getting errors with my variables... This works in Sql Server 2008... My question ...
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MySQL 5.1.63 - using tuning-primer - Table Cache question

tuning_primer says the following: TABLE CACHE Current table_open_cache = 812 tables Current table_definition_cache = 256 tables You have a total of 498 tables You have 812 open tables. Current ...
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How I should fix the following update statement to make it run faster?

I have the following DML: UPDATE rc_usutb011 u SET cod_ant=( SELECT cod_hst FROM rc_pdptb101 p WHERE ocip_hst=ocip_ant AND p.sector=u.sector ); The explain plan ...
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Learning to Optimize SQL Queries and Understand Execution Plans - Resources?

I find myself writing more and more SQL queries at work (mostly Oracle 11g, but some SQL Server 2005-2008) and have started creating some pretty complex views for the rest of the analyst team. They ...
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Pgpool, Postgresql and Apache tuning (1000 concurrent spatial queries)

I'm trying to configure a load balancing system. I've a python script, invoked through mod_wsgi on Apache, that generates a query and executes it on pgpool: request-> wsgi python -> pgpool -> ...
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Improve performance for my plsql block

First of all let me make kind of a disclaimer here: 1) i'm a developer, not an administrator; 2) and i dont have admin rights on my database. 3) table specs : -- oulp_path_attendance_base_t - ...
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Tuning dedicated Percona Server with XtraDB for OLTP

Hardware specs for an OLTP DB dual quad core xeon with hyperthreading 24GB ram Hardware RAID10 BBU Software specs Standard install of Ubuntu 10.04LTS with default LVM partitioning Installed ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 DETA Error: Can not get minimal database information in allotted time

I have a 18,6 GB SQL Server 2008 R2 profiler trace file. Trace file recorded at tuning profile. When I submit this trace file to database engine tuning advisor I get this error: Error: Can not get ...
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Possible to make MySQL use more than one core?

I've been presented with some dedicated MySQL servers that never use more than a single core. I'm more developer then DBA for MySQL so need some help Setup The servers are quite hefty with an ...
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DTA Recommends to CREATE STATISTICS

I just ran a T-SQL query through DTA and one of the recommendations is to CREATE STATISTICS on one of the columns that is part of many of the queries in the SQL code file. My question is, how exactly ...
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Can SQL profiles be deployed to other Oracle Databases?

When using The SQL Tuning Advisor in SQL-Developer. I get often some recommendations to accept a SQL-Profil. I guess it is a good idea to do so. But is this similar to proposed indexes, which I can ...