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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By : Andrew Caya
Book Image

Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By: Andrew Caya

Overview of this book

This book will get you started with the latest benchmarking, profiling and monitoring tools for PHP, MySQL and JavaScript using Docker-based technologies. From optimizing PHP 7 code to learning asynchronous programming, from implementing Modern SQL solutions to discovering Functional JavaScript techniques, this book covers all the latest developments in Faster Web technologies. You will not only learn to determine the best optimization strategies, but also how to implement them. Along the way, you will learn how to profile your PHP scripts with Blackfire.io, monitor your Web applications, measure database performance, optimize SQL queries, explore Functional JavaScript, boost Web server performance in general and optimize applications when there is nothing left to optimize by going beyond performance. After reading this book, you will know how to boost the performance of any Web application and make it part of what has come to be known as the Faster Web.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Faster Web – Getting Started
6
Querying a Modern SQL Database Efficiently
Index

Chapter 6. Querying a Modern SQL Database Efficiently

We will now learn how to query an SQL database efficiently using Modern SQL. In this chapter, we will define what Modern SQL is and how to use it. We will start by defining the concept of Modern SQL and understanding what makes it different from traditional SQL by describing many of its features. Thus, we will acquire knowledge of how to convert certain traditional SQL queries into modern ones and when it is best to do so. Moreover, by doing so, we will better understand how Modern SQL can help us optimize a server's performance in more than one way.

Therefore, we will cover the following points:

  • Understanding what Modern SQL is and its features
  • Learning how and when to use WITH and WITH RECURSIVE, CASE, OVER AND PARTITION BY, OVER AND ORDER BY, GROUPING SETS, JSON clauses and functions, FILTER and LATERAL queries.