Database performance problems affect the responsiveness of the business-critical applications that they support. Everyone wants their databases to run smoothly, but how can you achieve that? It is ...

as the world moves from batch to real-time analytics, and from analysts running manual queries to applications running programmatic queries, traditional data warehouses are falling short. Through the ...

The first part has chapters that cover the traditional three-tier architecture used in web database applications. It is followed by a chapter on PHP and a chapter on MySQL and SQL in general. There is ...