Question

I’m still struggling with the performance of my MySQL database using the InnoDB engine. Especially the performance of data insertion, minor the performance of running queries.

I’ve been googling for information, how-to’s and so on, but I found most information rather profound matter. Can I find somewhere on the net some basic information for “newbies”, a starting point for performance optimization? The first, most import steps for InnoDB optimization, explained in a less complicated way.

I’m using the Windows platform

Answer 1

I used to manage a couple very large MySQL Databases (like, 1TB+). They were huge, unforgiving beasts with an endless appetite to cause me stomach problems.

I read everything I could find on MySQL Performance Tuning and innodb. Here’s a summary of what helped me:

1. The book High Performance MySQL is good, but only gets you so far.
2. The blog MySQL Performance Blog (this link is to their posts tagged ‘innodb’) was the most useful overall resource I found on the net. They go into detail on a lot of innodb tuning issues. It gets ‘ranty’ at times, but overall it’s great. Here’s another link there on InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics that’s good.
3. The last main thing I did to learn it was to simply read the MySQL Docs themselves. I read how every last parameter works, changed them on my server and then did some basic profiling. After a while you figure out what works by running big queries and seeing what happens. Here’s a good place to start:
   InnoDB Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

In the end, it’s just experimenting and working through things until you gain enough knowledge to know what works.