Database performance is a crucial factor in web application performance, and can mean the difference between a responsive web application and a slow one. Here, we summarise methods for identifying database performance issues, and how to approach fixing them. Benchmarking Overall Performance First, it is worth establishing whether database queries are a performance bottleneck, or whether you should
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