When enterprises and companies are having trouble with SQL query optimization, they frequently turn to performance tuning tools and optimization strategies. This will not only help in analyzing and speeding up queries, but also in resolving performance issues, troubleshooting bad performance, and avoiding or minimizing the impact on SQL Server databases. Data accessibility, availability, and performance are critical to corporate success.
In this article, you will learn how to test database performance in Rails and solve some of the most common database performance issues. When you develop a Rails application, ActiveRecord is the default tool that manages your database. ActiveRecord provides an easy and fast interface to query and insert data using commands like.where, .save, .create, and.update. Rails does the work of converting these commands to SQL queries, which is a good thing, but sometimes can cause performance issues.
This short post by a member of Ably's engineering team describes how we resolved a problem that is typical of the challenges we face each week. We thrive on solving hard distributed system problems that are mostly platform agnostic and theoretical in nature, and this is the first post in a long-term series of articles about things we've learned recently.
