Posts Tagged ‘MySql’

Jan
30
2009

MySQL – Steps for Better SQL Performance

Steps to make MySQL produce optimized results

» Identify the queries that execute slowly
» Watch for Opened Sql connections
» Carry benchmark test on Queries
» Execute queries with Explain statement to the performance of each queries
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Dec
31
2008

MySQL vs. PostgreSQL – Comparison

There had often been talks and some times flame wars when there had been comparison between MySQL and PostgreSQL. Each database has its own strength and weaknesses. As an initiative, I thought to do a little research on this topic and to list down the common points gathered in a tabular format. (more…)

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Dec
24
2008

phpMyAdmin – visual interface for MySQL on Windows/Linux

phpMyAdmin is a web based interface to MySQL which is written using PHP for Administration of databases. Visual interface provided is intuitive and it saves time for the developers. (ver 3.1.1 is the recommended version as of this writing which runs on PHP 5/MySQL 5)

Step 1: First we need to check MySQL is installed by issuing the following command
[root@user Desktop]# which mysql

If you get …
/usr/bin/mysql
then, it is an indication that MySQL is installed in your machine. (more…)

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