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Partial caching to reduce SQL queries?


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rob.s

Community Member, 78 Posts

17 July 2013 at 2:48am

Hi ladies,

as mentioned in the docs (http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/3.1/reference/partial-caching) i thought, that using partial caching could also reduce the number of sql queries.

When using

<% cached 'MenuLeft', List(SiteTree).max(LastEdited) %>
    <ul>
		<% loop $Menu(1) %>
			<li class="$LinkingMode"><a href="$Link" title="$Title.XML">$MenuTitle.XML</a></li>
		<% end_loop %>
	</ul>
<% end_cached %>

When i check by using ?showqueries=1 the sql-queries stack is exactly the same?

Confusing (to me) ....

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martimiz

Forum Moderator, 1391 Posts

26 August 2013 at 10:35pm

Sir,

I'm not sure that this is the case here, because I've seen a some discussions of partial caching not always actually caching... But just a hunch: SilverStripe tries to cache many of its queries and objects along the way, so could it be that menu(1) already uses cached queries in the first place?

I often test these kind of things by placing some echo "*****" in the function involved, say at the start and the end of the function. Kinda simplistic and dirty, I know, (hiding my face) but quick to spot any sql queries executed by that specific function :)