A typical scenario
Boss: Our new website is crawling! How can it be, we have four state-of-the-art web servers - what's the problem?
You: Well, the web servers are fine - it's the database server that's struggling.
Boss: What? You told me this MySQL thing was fast, that we didn't need Oracle, and now you say it can't cope! How can this be?
You: Well, the web servers are behaving so well that they're pushing through lots of queries, and the database can't manage to process all of them at the same time. It's only one database, and lots of web servers...
Boss: It's too late to buy Oracle now - what are we going to do!?
Big Boss to Boss(in the boss's mind): This project has been a disaster from the beginning - now you want me to delay it while we install a new database, and spend a whole lot more! Do you think we're made of money!? I'm calling in someone who knows what they're doing - you're history buddy.
Colleague (about to take your job): Wait, I think I can solve the problem!
So, what does your colleague know that you don't? How can he save the day and let the boss get all the credit? Our scenario is too imprecise to generalize, and there are many possible solutions. You can read about optimizing queries and indexes, optimizing by improving the hardware, and tweaking the MySQL variables, using the slow query log, and of course, there are other methods such as replication. However, MySQL 4 provides one feature that can prove very handy - a query cache. In a situation where the database has to repeatedly run
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