Tips/best practices

There are several features of the MySQL database that can be misinterpreted easily. To avoid this, next, we will cover a few of the tips/best practices recommended for building an efficient and optimized MySQL database as a source of truth. The assumption for this entire chapter is that you have access to a local or remote MySQL database.

Optimizing your queries for the query cache

Any database converts raw SQL query statement into an internal structure through which it will process and acknowledge clients accordingly; similarly, MySQL also converts any statement (SQL/stored procedures/functions/triggers/events) into an understandable structure by MySQL's engine. The majority of the queries by an application...