Data Access

Computing 95 Percentile In MySQL

When doing performance analyzes you often would want to see 95 percentile, 99 percentile and similar values. The "average" is the evil of performance...

0 replies - 2869 views - 12/03/08 by PeterZaitsev in News

Making Your MySQL Tables More Effecient By Using Correct Fieldtypes

One of the biggest mistakes of today's fledgling MySQL programmers is their field type definitions, also known as data type or column type. Many are too quick...

1 replies - 5228 views - 12/02/08 by Mike Bernat in News

SQL Server Scheduled Backups with NAnt

When installing and using production web applications, backup is always a must. I have written about SQL Server Backup before and this post would expend on...

0 replies - 3243 views - 11/07/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News

ANALYZE: MyISAM vs Innodb

Following up on my Previous Post I decided to do little test to see how accurate stats we can get for for Index Stats created by ANALYZE TABLE for MyISAM and...

0 replies - 2898 views - 09/11/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Troubleshooting Relay Log Corruption in MySQL

Have you ever seen the replication stopped with message like this: Last_Error: Could not parse relay log event entry. The possible reasons are: the master's...

0 replies - 4100 views - 09/09/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Podcast: Writing LUA Scripts for MySQL Proxy - MySQL University

This session will introduce the basics of the Lua language, with particular emphasis on the features of immediate use with MySQL Proxy. The lecture will...

0 replies - 2352 views - 09/08/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

How to find duplicate row in a table - MSSQL

The below given query will fetch the duplicate rows in MSSQL with number of occurance of each row.SELECT <all column names - comma seperated>,...

0 replies - 2298 views - 09/01/08 by arunbiji in Tips and Tricks

Why Data As A Service Isn't A Bad Idea

Early this week I encountered the post "Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea" written by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz in DZone. The title caught my eye...

0 replies - 1790 views - 08/21/08 by gilf in News

SelectMany: Probably The Most Powerful LINQ Operator

Hi there back again. Hope everyone is already exploiting the power of LINQ on a fairly regular basis. Okay, everyone knows by now how simple LINQ queries with...

0 replies - 4675 views - 08/20/08 by bdesmet in News

How adding another table to JOIN can improve performance

JOINs are expensive and it most typical the fewer tables (for the same database) you join the better performance you will get. As for any rules there are...

1 replies - 3642 views - 08/14/08 by Schalk Neethling in News