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Improving database performance is something of a ‘dark art’, so we’ve put five zero-cost performance upgrades to the test in iTnews Labs.The results may surprise you.

Though MySQL has evolved into a robust database engine that now handles large-scale operations for mission-critical workloads, the complexity of performance tuning can still prove challenging for DBAs ...