Are the ususal database performance-tuning tips invalide for a third-party app like Drupal

Posted by Paul Strugger on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Paul Strugger
Published on 2010-05-28T15:44:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 22:32 UTC
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When you have a slow database app, the first suggestions that people make is to:

Track the slow queries
Add appropriate indexes

In the case you are building your own application this is very logical, but when you use a CMS like Drupal, that are people have developed and tuned, is this approach valid?

I mean, aren't Drupal tables already fine-tuned for performance? Even if I try to see which queries are the slow ones, what could I do about it? Re-write Drupal core?!?

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