I've hit the DB performance bottleneck, where now?

Question

I have some queries that are taking too long (300ms) now that the DB has grown to a few million records. Luckily for me the queries don\'t need to look at the majority of this d

Answer 1

Instead of creating a separate table for latest results, think about table partitioning. MySQL has this feature built in since version 5.1

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Just to make it clear: I am not saying this is THE solution for your issues. Just one thing you can try