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Database Administration Tips For Optimizing Performance5

The document provides essential tips for database administration focused on optimizing performance, categorized into database design, indexing strategy, query optimization, server tuning, maintenance, storage, and security. Key recommendations include smart normalization, efficient indexing, query execution analysis, memory allocation adjustments, and regular monitoring. The document emphasizes the importance of balancing read and write optimizations and benchmarking changes for effectiveness.

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Database Administration Tips For Optimizing Performance5

The document provides essential tips for database administration focused on optimizing performance, categorized into database design, indexing strategy, query optimization, server tuning, maintenance, storage, and security. Key recommendations include smart normalization, efficient indexing, query execution analysis, memory allocation adjustments, and regular monitoring. The document emphasizes the importance of balancing read and write optimizations and benchmarking changes for effectiveness.

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database administration tips for optimizing performance

ChatGPT said:

Here are key database administration (DBA) tips for optimizing


performance, organized into practical categories:

🔹 1. Database Design & Schema Optimization

 Normalize smartly → Avoid redundant data, but don’t over-normalize.


Use denormalization where performance is critical (e.g., analytics).

 Use appropriate data types → Choose smallest sufficient types (INT


vs BIGINT, VARCHAR(50) vs TEXT).

 Primary & foreign keys → Always define them; they help enforce
integrity and improve query execution plans.

 Partitioning → Split large tables (range, list, hash) to speed up


queries.

🔹 2. Indexing Strategy

 Create indexes wisely → Index columns used in WHERE, JOIN,


ORDER BY, and GROUP BY.

 Use composite indexes → But order matters; put the most selective
column first.

 Avoid over-indexing → Too many indexes slow down INSERT,


UPDATE, DELETE.

 Use covering indexes → Store all required columns in an index to


avoid going back to the table.

🔹 3. Query Optimization

 Avoid SELECT * → Fetch only required columns.

 Use EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE → Check query execution plans


for bottlenecks.
 Reduce subqueries → Rewrite with JOIN or CTE (Common Table
Expressions).

 Batch operations → Insert/update in batches instead of row-by-row.

 Cache results → For frequently executed, read-heavy queries.

🔹 4. Server & Configuration Tuning

 Memory allocation → Adjust innodb_buffer_pool_size (MySQL),


shared_buffers (Postgres), etc.

 Connection pooling → Prevents overhead from repeatedly


opening/closing connections.

 Parallel execution → Enable parallel query execution if supported.

 Transaction management → Keep transactions short; long


transactions lock resources.

🔹 5. Maintenance & Monitoring

 Update statistics → DB optimizer relies on table statistics; keep them


fresh.

 Vacuum / Analyze (Postgres) or OPTIMIZE TABLE (MySQL) →


Removes bloat & reorganizes storage.

 Monitor slow queries → Use logs (slow_query_log in MySQL,


pg_stat_statements in Postgres).

 Set alerts → For high CPU, memory, I/O usage, or replication lag.

🔹 6. Storage & Hardware

 SSD over HDD → Faster disk I/O.

 Proper RAID setup → RAID 10 for balance of speed + redundancy.

 Separate storage → Logs, temp files, and main data on separate


disks if possible.
🔹 7. Security & Reliability

 Limit user permissions → Prevents costly mistakes.

 Regular backups → Full + incremental + transaction log backups.

 Replication → For high availability and load balancing.

✅ Rule of Thumb:

 Index for reads, optimize queries, and tune configs for writes.

 Always benchmark before and after changes to ensure real


improvements.

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