content/data-base/Q&A: Common MySQL Development Mistakes.md

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Title: "Q&A: Common MySQL Development Mistakes" Date: 2016-12-09 09:11:00 Categories: [data base] tags: [mysql, mariadb, percona]

Authors: sedlav

Bill Karwin provides a guide on "How to Avoid Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistake". Here are some of the questions answered by Bill Karwin:

• What are the performance drawbacks of prepared statements?
• What about using fixed length text fields rather than VARCHARs?
• Advice on fixing some of the datatype or character set problems?

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