Databases tend to grow over time as they store more and more information. To ensure your database information can be accessed in the shortest time possible, you need to learn a few tricks to speed up data retrieval. For MySQL databases, you can use indexes and partitions to limit the amount of data that MySQL has to traverse to fetch query results, and use some other optimization tricks to further improve performance.
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