If you have been around MySQL for any length of time, you are probably aware that choosing the correct data types and optimizing your schema are actually important tasks. A few years back at Percona Live 2016, I gave an introductory talk on schema review and optimization. Here’s the video:
I was thinking about that talk in the context of some of my current clients. Though I had worked on extremely large database deployments during my earlier tenure at Percona, it was often more of an outlier. Now, working as a Technical Account Manager with our largest clients, it is much more common.
The Fundamental Problem
I’d like to expand my thoughts on the “choosing the smallest data type you can” principle from my 2016 slides through the lens of a few of my 2019 …
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