MySQL is the most commonly used Relational Database Management System (RDMS) for the Web. It is open source and has a free community version. It provides all those features that can be provided by an enterprise-level database.
The default settings provided with the MySQL installation may not be so good for performance, and there are always ways to fine-tune these settings to get an improved performance. Also, remember that your database design plays a big role in performance. A poorly designed database will have an effect on the overall performance.
In this section, we will discuss how to improve the MySQL database's performance.
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We will modify the MySQL configuration's my.cnf file. This file is located in different places in different operating systems. Also, if you are using XAMPP, WAMP, or any other cross-platform web server solution stack package on Windows, this file will be located in the respective folder. Whenever my.cnf is mentioned, it is assumed that the file...
