http://ian.sundermedia.com/2009/11/blame-sql/ Science is wicked fun Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://ian.sundermedia.com/2009/11/blame-sql/comment-page-1/#comment-512 Anddrew Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:30:55 +0000 http://ian.sundermedia.com/?p=88#comment-512 I maintain a site with a huge SQL database as its backbone, and was experiencing an extreme slowdown. After connecting to the server and finding nothing alarming, I took a look at the SQL tables and noticed they had not been optimized in a very long time, and that they only had one index on a field that was not used to select items. I added a couple index and optimized the table, and my load times went down by well over 50%. I maintain a site with a huge SQL database as its backbone, and was experiencing an extreme slowdown. After connecting to the server and finding nothing alarming, I took a look at the SQL tables and noticed they had not been optimized in a very long time, and that they only had one index on a field that was not used to select items. I added a couple index and optimized the table, and my load times went down by well over 50%.

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