The Ultimate Guide to MySQL Partitioning: From Creation and Automation to Avoiding Pitfalls
Is database performance becoming a bottleneck with your ever-growing log or time-series data? This article provides a deep dive into MySQL's powerful monthly range partitioning. We cover initial table design with MAXVALUE, automated partition maintenance using MySQL Events, and seamless read/write operations with PHP. We also unveil the biggest operational advantage of partitioning—lightning-fast data cleanup—and rationally analyze its potential performance pitfalls and ideal use cases, helping you decide when you should (and shouldn't) use this powerful feature.
MySQL PV Log Table Optimization: A Deep Dive into Slashing Storage Costs by 73%
How do you design a high-performance, cost-effective MySQL table for 100,000 daily page views? This article provides a deep dive into a real-world PV log table case study, analyzing the complete optimization process from field selection and indexing strategies to partitioning. This approach is crucial for systems handling large volumes of log data, like the analytics module at wiki.lib00.com, ultimately achieving over a 73% reduction in storage and a significant boost in write performance.