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Update 2: Programming and Database Mistakes

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Percy Kwong

The biggest mistake you can make to cause problems with performance as a developer is to use joins.  Inner or Outer Joins take up a lot of CPU.  The transaction queries also take over 1000% time to complete in many cases. If you have to join tables, you need to revisit your DB architecture.  The…

The most common mistake in Applications and Databases in general

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So many programmers make this mistake because they don’t seem to get it.  It’s not your fault as a programmer / developer.  It’s just that you’re not a DBA. You need to implement Connection pooling.  It makes such a huge difference in the way your DB performance and app works it’s amazing. So here are…

Boosting Octane Yourself. I did the research, made it, and proved it.

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So I drive a car that requires 93 min. Octane.   Me, being the skeptic started thinking about Gasoline blends around the world.  I realized in my travels (and I am extremely well traveled), that pretty much every other country in the world has one grade of Gas vs. America and some parts of Europe and…

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