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Database Optimization Notes¶

Overview
MySQL
- Block Nested Loop (BNL) in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7

Overview¶

This article contains descriptions of some known issues and recipes that might help to get the best application performance.

MySQL¶

Block Nested Loop (BNL) in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7¶

MySQL 5.6 has a lot of improvements in the query optimizer, but unfortunately some queries work significantly slower than in MySQL 5.5. In case of large amounts of data in the database, it is possible to encounter performance issues related to the new query optimizer. One of the possible solutions might be disabling block_nested_loop option. This can be achieved in two ways:

If a modification of MySQL configuration file is granted, add the following under the mysqld section
```
[mysqld]
optimizer_switch=block_nested_loop=off
```

Another way is to add the following configuration to the app/config/config.yml file

doctrine:
    dbal:
        connections:
            default:
                options:
                    # PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND
                    1002: 'SET @@SESSION.optimizer_switch="block_nested_loop=off";'