SQL Performance Tips

Tips to get best SQL performance.
Covering all major SQL databases.
 is my book.

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SQL Performance Explained — A Book For Developers
It focuses on what developers need to know.
Just 200 pages…yet covering all major databases.

https://t.co/fkbYE74LQt

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14 years online, still relevant and current.

Those who did the quiz 14 years ago can still benefit for their lessons at that time.

https://t.co/bgYh8tKg8K

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A B-tree is not a binary tree.

A B-tree does not go out of balance. A B-tree is self-balancing: it does *not* require expensive operations to keep the balance.

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Completley free web-book about SQL indexing:

https://t.co/AhN07mt3Lt

Covering many systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ...

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Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite

https://t.co/ZJXbPtnNhB

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Another look into PostgreSQL CTE materialization and non-idempotent subqueries

https://t.co/BprzbiV7bU

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For this WHERE, what index to create?

WHERE subsidiary_id = 42 AND last_name LIKE '%INA%'

Is (subsidiary_id) enough or should it be (subsidiary_id, last_name)?

https://t.co/Ax09WlDtOB

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My favorite change is that MariaDB got an improved "WHERE year(...) = ?" rewriting. https://t.co/9liw4kyyp4

In picture: the green check mark used to be yellow, with the "a" footnote: Unconditionally rewritten—even if only a matching function-based index exists

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Survey on performance optimization for database systems (2023)

https://t.co/hZu8wWoEJy

[Shreyansh Gupta @_backslashzero]

#DoYouKnow? If your index is getting too big in size, you can index only a subset of the values using Partial Indexes.

Read more here - https://t.co/6aOT5T1Lck

#Databases #SQL

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Improved RCSI Ghost Cleanup in SQL Server 2022
— by Paul White

As always, Paul provides deep insight into the SQL Server implementation.

https://t.co/Nc0dfTOnXW

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Farm to TABLE: Local(e) Providers
https://t.co/0HGYKYWrYC

The Doom That Came To PostgreSQL: When Collations Change
https://t.co/GmGHx3zwES

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Collations are a wonderful feature.

They solve problems way beyond case-insensitive search: ignoring accents and "numeric" sorting ('10' > '2') are just two more examples.

However, they do have a performance impact as shown by this micro-benchmark:
https://t.co/UOcEoQA38H

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If you are not sure what collations are about, please read the entire series by Christophe Pettus:

“Gentlemen, this is a 🏈”: Glyphs, Encodings, Collations, and Locales
https://t.co/JDJ2Vm0hUs

Speaking in Tongues: PostgreSQL and Character Encodings
https://t.co/aLHuWPPM68

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At about this time of the day, I run my open-to-everyone trainings.

The last training this year is "SQL Performance Explained", for which I have one spot left. It starts Dec 2nd and is delivered in seven 2-hour long in-person sessions each Mon/Wed/Fri.

https://t.co/86X2Fp1igu

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@softilium Well, then read the article to see that it does make a big difference. https://t.co/Ax09WlCVZ3

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For this WHERE, what index to create?

WHERE subsidiary_id = 42 AND last_name LIKE '%INA%'

Is (subsidiary_id) enough or should it be (subsidiary_id, last_name)?

https://t.co/Ax09WlDtOB

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@davidrowley_pg Check again :

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Finding for the most recent, best matching, highest ranking rows (“Top-N”) is a common problem.

The window functions ROW_NUMBER, RANK and DENSE_RANK can be used for such queries.

Not all systems optimize these queries well—PostgreSQL 15 just learned it.

https://t.co/TX0HBY1iHh

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SQL Best Practices Every Java Engineer Must Know

https://t.co/nVBQxlOT5t

[IMHO: not just Java Engineers]

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In the meanwhile enjoy a discount for SQL Performance Explained if you don't have it yet: 15YrsAnniversary

Only valid when purchasing directly from me (not on Amazon, ...):

https://t.co/qE63UZfEEl

(but valid for all languages — see language selection at the top).