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Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices

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Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. It’s not only the DBA’s (database administrators) that have to worry about these performance issues. We as programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Here are some MySQL optimization techniques for programmers.

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Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Use a PHP Framework

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PHP Frameworks have been receiving a lot of attention in the past few years from the web development community. What’s this hype all about?

If you look at PHP Job listings, you will often see “MVC Framework Experience” as one of their requirements. It is becoming one of those must-have skill sets for web developers.

There are pretty good reasons behind all of this. In this article we will explore why you, as a PHP programmer, should be using a PHP Framework.

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