Database Opt
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Chris Lehneis Charlotte Tregelles
How to Deal with N + 1 Queries
Database Performance
SCALABILITY
Scalability Challenge
❖ Database only has a limited amount of connections.
❖ Bottleneck occurs when requests exceed number of connections.
What are N + 1 Queries?!
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❖ N + 1 problem: Loading many objects from the database, and for each object 1 or more queries are made.
Models
Controller and View
Queries
❖ N+1 queries = potentially 100s of queries
❖ Average page has 5-6 queries
Bullet
❖ Use eager loading to remove N + 1 queries
❖ Remove eager loading when unnecessary
❖ When to use counter cache
Artists Table
Summary
❖ Optimizing databases performance is essential for scalable web applications!
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❖ Use eager loading, its awesome, but only when beneficial.
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❖ Cache when counting objects
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