Explaining EXPLAIN

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Speaker: Lukas Smith
Start time: Friday @ 10:15
Duration: 1 hour
Talk synopsis: Your 3-table JOIN is taking 30 seconds and you do not know why? EXPLAIN is the tool of choice for getting to the bottom of your performance issues. In this talk, we will step through optimizing several queries using EXPLAIN. We will go through all the terminology needed to understand the output from EXPLAIN as well as how to rewrite SQL, add indexes and other steps to produce optimal queries.

Attendees are encouraged to bring along their own laptops to work on the provided examples during the session.

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