It’s been a funny old week yet again. The things I have learned about databases this week you won’t find in books. I have learned some voodoo that is so powerful that it makes me seriously wonder if databases are a good idea at all… Having optimized tables and adding column indexes and explaining sql till the cows come home, I managed to improve the speed of certain queries by a gazillion percent (and that’s an official benchmark) by acting on a hunch of a suspicion of a fantasy of a this’ll-never-work idea. You simply wouldn’t believe.
Still lots to do still… but in the meantime…
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