Session Confession Time: Deadly Sins in MySQL Arjen Lentz Track: Performance Tuning and Benchmarks Date: Wednesday, April 20 Time: 2:20pm - 3:05pm Location: Ballroom F TrackBack So many things just seem like a good idea, or make perfect sense at the time...but they are so utterly bad in the long run--issues of bad design, bad queries, bad tuning. MySQL has many features, and some are often abused for what Lentz would call evil purposes. Perhaps you can think of some yourself? Other issues are that old relational database "rules" do not always apply in 2004. But people just remember the rule, not the reason. This talk covers a wide range of "no-no's." We will discuss them, and look at better solutions using very short, simple, and specific cases as examples. You may wish to take notes! The title was to get your attention, but Lentz promises to keep it lighthearted.

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