On October 3, 2008,
in PHP,
by Lee Mangold
I suppose this part is just a rant, but if I see one more piece of undocumented, poorly spaced, procedural lump of PHP code, I’m going to scream. I realize that much of the PHP code out there was written for free by people who were writing code just to “get the job done”…I understand [...]
Optimizing your database tables is an essential task and the performance results might amaze you. Optimization is essentially the process of defragmenting your database tables. Then you use variable-length database fields such as VARCHAR, BLOB, TEXT, or VARBINARY, defragmentation can occur when rows are deleted.