Posted by Willem Bogaerts on 12/06/06 07:37

If you'd use a database too much, I suspect it gives a huge load. My
first guess is that you try and see if the database itself is properly
organized, especially if the necessary indexes exist and are used.
Further optimization is possible (like caching), but will generally not
have that huge an impact.

Best regards

Vincent Delporte wrote:
> Hi
>
> A friend is running a community application in PHP on a shared
> server, and his provider is complaining that it's using the DB too
> much.
>
> Apart from making changes to how data are organized in the DBMS, are
> there ways in PHP to minimize DB load, eg. caching data instead of
> reading/writing them from/to the DBMS every time, etc.?
>
> Thank you.

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