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Greyhound-Data Dog Racing Site Relies on the Speed of MySQL

Overview Greyhound-Data is the world's most popular greyhound racing web site. It is the de facto web site for greyhound fans in worldwide who follow the results of the 'Big tracks' in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Australia. Founded in 1999, Greyhound-Data is a non profit organization with the goal of providing freely accessible information about greyhounds. The highlight of the site is that even very complicated race statistics across millions of records are calculated in fractions of a second due to the optimized MySQL backend.

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Publisher	MySQL	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2006	Downloads	16
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Database Applications

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