Designing Efficient SQL: A Visual Approach

Sometimes, it is a great idea to push away the keyboard when tackling the problems of an ill-performing, complex, query, and take up pencil and paper instead. By drawing a diagram to show of all the tables involved, the joins, the volume of data involved, and the indexes, you’ll see more easily the relative efficiency of the possible paths that your query could take through the tables.

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