In a recent blog post, I've advocated against the use of COUNT(*) in SQL, when a simple EXISTS() would suffice. This is important stuff. I keep tuning productive queries where a customer runs a COUNT(*) query like so: SELECT count(*) INTO v_any_wahlbergs FROM actor a JOIN film_actor fa USING (actor_id) WHERE a.last_name = 'WAHLBERG' ... … Continue reading Don’t Even use COUNT(*) For Primary Key Existence Checks
Tag: SQL Performance
jOOQ Tuesdays: Chris Saxon Explains the 3 Things Every Developer Should Know About SQL
Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month (today, exceptionally on a Wednesday because of technical issues) where we interview someone we find exciting in our industry from a jOOQ perspective. This includes people who work with SQL, Java, Open Source, and a … Continue reading jOOQ Tuesdays: Chris Saxon Explains the 3 Things Every Developer Should Know About SQL
Why Most Programmers Get Pagination Wrong
Pagination is one of those things that almost everyone gets wrong for two reasons: User experience Database performance Here's why. What's wrong with pagination? Most applications blindly produce pagination like this: This is how GMail implements pagination. With my current settings, it displays 100 E-Mails at a time and also shows how many E-Mails there … Continue reading Why Most Programmers Get Pagination Wrong
jOOQ Tuesdays: Thorben Janssen Shares his Hibernate Performance Secrets
Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month where we interview someone we find exciting in our industry from a jOOQ perspective. This includes people who work with SQL, Java, Open Source, and a variety of other related topics. I'm very excited to … Continue reading jOOQ Tuesdays: Thorben Janssen Shares his Hibernate Performance Secrets
How to Detect Slow Queries with jOOQ
Just now, we implemented a nice little feature in jOOQ's code generator: https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/issues/4974 It detects whenever the jOOQ code generator runs a slow query to reverse engineer schema meta information. Why? In our development and integration test environment, we don't have huge schemas with all the different performance edge cases put in place. For instance, … Continue reading How to Detect Slow Queries with jOOQ
Still Using Windows 3.1? So why stick to SQL-92?
We've been blogging a lot about the merits of modern SQL on the jOOQ blog. Specifically, window functions are one of the most fascinating features. But there are many many others. Markus Winand, author of the popular book SQL Performance Explained has recently given a very well-researched talk about modern SQL. We particularly like his … Continue reading Still Using Windows 3.1? So why stick to SQL-92?
NoSQL? No, SQL! – How to Calculate Running Totals
If anything at all, our jOOQ talks at various JUGs and conferences have revealed mostly one thing: Java developers don't know SQL. And it isn't even necessarily our fault. We're just not exposed to SQL nowadays. But consider this: We developers (or our customers) are paying millions of dollars every year to Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, … Continue reading NoSQL? No, SQL! – How to Calculate Running Totals