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Separate table by often changed / not often changed data?
I have a application which querys different gameservers, and stores for example if the server is online, and how many players are connected. But of course there is also data which is changed rarely.
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Postgres: count(*) vs count(id)
I saw in the documentation the difference between count(*) and count(pk). I had been using count(pk) (where pk is a SERIAL PRIMARY KEY) not knowing about the existence of count(*).
My question is ...
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Exploring and optimizing SQL performance of your system (PostgreSQL and Hibernate)?
Imagine you have inherited some project with extensive usage of SQL queries.
Let us assume that Hibernate is used as ORM and PostgreSQL as database, but thats not the point.
A question is: could ...
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optimize big sql query
My query has to return a statistics for example for march containing productname and price and its sidedishes (1:n relation) with the right price of each sidedish and the right tax for each sidedish ...
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What index to add in case of join by two optional fields
I have query similar to the one below, it joins two tables by field which can have NULL value. The result matchs the data if both tables have the same data or consider the condition as optional.
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Faster joining on 'most recent' related rows
I have a bug tracking application. The bug table stores very little,
because every state change to a bug happens by adding a comment. For
example, the current state of a bug is determined by the state ...
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Indexing strategy when using the between operator SQL Server 2008
I have a large table ~25 million rows with the structure
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[rx](
[pat_id] [int] NOT NULL,
[fill_Date] [date] NOT NULL,
[script_End_Date] AS ...
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Does the order of fields in SELECT query matter when using composite indexing?
I understand that the order of columns in the index itself matters immensely; however, what about the order of columns in the subsequent SELECT queries that make use of that index?
For example, if I ...
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How to get the information of the optimizer of sql server?
The info like total optimization time, the time spent on each stage of optimization, the number of alternative plans and the cost of each alternative plan. Is there any way to get these info using sql ...
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Best book on query optimization, rewriting, refactoring [closed]
I have a specific problem: huge amounts of Web-related data in Postgres db. The queries running against the data are often very inefficient.
But in a more general sense, I need a book that explains ...
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Optimising MySQL query with lots of self-joins
I have an entity_relationship table that describes relationships between entities. Each relationship will have 2+ entities involved.
In some cases it can be said that one entity is a constituent of a ...
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How do I force a JOIN to use a specific index in MySQL?
I have a query that JOINs 2 tables; lineitem and part,
select
sum(l_extendedprice* (1 - l_discount)) as revenue
from
lineitem force index for join (l_pk),
part
where
(
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mysql select query optimization [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
mysql select query optimization
I have two tables, testa and testb.
CREATE TABLE `testa` (
`id` INT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` VARCHAR(50) DEFAULT NULL,
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How to optimize a log process in MySQL?
In my project, I have about 100.000 users and can't control their behavior. Now, what I would like to do is log their activity in a certain task. Every activity, is one record which includes columns ...
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250 billion rows - computing interconnectedness on a really huge scale
I have a table of approximately 700k rows, each identified by a unique itemnumber.
Each row/item can be associated with any of the other rows/items in the table by calculating a single numerical ...
