Best practice: profile before adding memcached?

[howard chen]

On 2/5/07, Jason Edgecombe <jedgecombe at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have  a question about best practice. Should the code and database
> queries be profiled before adding memcached to the mix? How throughly
> should it be profiled?
>
> Jason
>
>

I would suggest the best practice is to run the `explain` statements
of your critical SQL before doing any codes' profiling.

I remembered some tools can run the query log and find the problem for you.

Howa