Category: SQL

10 sql tips to speed up your database

Posted March 7th, 2010 by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 57 Comments

On most websites, content is stored in a database and served to visitors upon request. Databases are very fast, but there’s lots of things that you can do to enhance its speed and make sure you won’t waste any server resources. In this article, I have compiled 10 very useful tips to optimize and speed up your website database.

Getting started with CouchDB: a beginner’s guide

Posted March 4th, 2010 by Matt Apperson. 34 Comments

Have you ever dreamt about a powerful database that you can access easily, without using the SQL language? That what Apache CouchDB is all about. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to get started with this document-riented database and how you can use it with PHP.