Optimizing MySQL: Deleting Data


 

In the previous parts of these MySQL optimization series, we told you how query optimization works on a high level, then walked you through how you should optimize queries that insert, read, or update data. Remember the laws of physics? “What goes up, must come down”? Translated into database terms, that means “the data that is inserted, will (sometimes, eventually) need to be deleted.” In the last part of these MySQL optimization series, we will tell you how you should go about optimizing queries that delete data.

Deleting Data – the Basics

Ask any DBA how to delete data and