Performance issues are common problems when administering MySQL databases. Sometimes these problems are, in fact, due to slow queries. In this blog, we'll deal with slow queries and how to identify these. Checking Your Slow...

The I/O performance is vital for MySQL databases. Data is read and written to the disk in numerous places. Redo logs, tablespaces, binary and relay logs. With an increase of the usage of solid state...

The management of database performance is an area that businesses when administrators often find themselves contributing more time to than they expected. Monitoring and reacting to the production database performance issues is one of the...

Ever since MySQL was originally forked to form MariaDB it has been widely supported and adopted quickly by a large audience in the open source database community. Originally a drop-in replacement, MariaDB has started to...

The database backend affects the application, which can then impact organizational performance. When this happens, those in charge tend to want a quick fix. There are many different roads to improve performance in MySQL. As...

This is the second part of a two-part series blog for Maximizing Database Query Efficiency In MySQL. You can read part one here. Using Single-Column, Composite, Prefix, and Covering Index Tables that are frequently receiving...

Slow queries, inefficient queries, or long running queries are problems that regularly plague DBA's. They are always ubiquitous, yet are an inevitable part of life for anyone responsible for managing a database.  Poor database design...

As soon as you start running a database server and your usage grows, you are exposed to many types of technical problems, performance degradation, and database malfunctions.  Each of these could lead to much bigger...

Benchmarking is a way of discovering the performance of your infrastructure. Sysbench is a great tool to benchmark PostgreSQL servers. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to generate test loads using sysbench. We...

Database backup is nothing but a way to protect or restore data. It is the process of storing the operational state, architecture, and data of your database. It can be very useful in situations of...

Database performance affects organizational performance, and we tend to want to look for a quick fix. There are many different avenues to improve performance in MongoDB. In this blog, we will help you to understand...

Performance is one of the most important and most complex tasks when managing a database. It can be affected by the configuration, the hardware or even the design of the system. By default, PostgreSQL is...