Posted by C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) on 01/07/08 12:42

On 7 Jan, 07:04, Gilles Ganault <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:41:32 -0800 (PST), NC <n...@iname.com> wrote:
> >It's not; you are confusing caching content with caching database
> >queries.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> >If you cache queries, you simply turn on query caching in the MySQL
> >server; no specific calls from the application are necessary.
>
> Am I right in saying that MySQL doesn't care from which web user the
> query is coming: As long as it's in the DB cache, ie. it's a query
> that is often made from web user, regardless of who they are, it will
> be sent to the PHP process, significantly improving performance since
> MySQL won't actually have to compute it and access the hard disk?

If it's in the MySQL cache, yes.

If your pages don't change particularly quickly, you should be looking
at setting caching information via the header() function and using a
caching reverse proxy.

C.

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