I am new to this topic in many ways. For ages I have prefered to do the database work in Cakephp – or being honest, I have been afraid to touch MySQL, being that close to the data seemed like a stupid idea. Especially because I wasn’t bold enough to go playing with things.

That being said, I have been needing to make my data transfers faster for one project I am currently working on (under wraps at this time, more news soon I’m sure). Every second query was returning nothing. Not good. So the first thing was to speed up the queries. Read the rest of this entry »