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Optimizing database queries and structure

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Optimizing database queries and structure

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- [Instructor] A slow database can drastically impact your site's performance. In this video, we'll explore techniques to optimize queries, clean up database structures and improve overall efficiency. Let's get started. A well optimized database ensures faster query execution leading to improved load times, lower server resource consumption, reducing hosting costs, better scalability as your WordPress site grows and fewer database errors and inconsistencies. By optimizing your database, you enhance both user experience and backend performance. Several issues can slow down a WordPress database. Unoptimized queries that retrieve more data than needed, bloated post revisions, transients and unused metadata. Lack of proper indexing, making lookups slower and too many auto loaded options in the wp_options table. Identifying and addressing these issues is key to improving performance. Regular database maintenance improves performance. Delete old post revisions and transients. Remove spam…

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