EP 17: Ever optimized a query like THIS?

You've probably heard of an index. Maybe you know a couple other ways to speed up a query.But what if there was ANOTHER way to make your queries speed up by orders of magnitude?On this episode of SELECT STAR, learn how this tried-and-true tactic can help you speed up even the thorniest of queries!Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ for FREE and get started!About our hosts:Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined Cockroach Labs as a technical content engineer. He was the lead developer for Spring Data JPA, Spring Web Services, and a committer to multiple Spring portfolio projects. He wrote Packt's best-selling title, Learning Spring Boot 2.0 2nd Edition, and its 3rd Edition follow-up along with many others including 12 Rules for Pro Coders. He co-founded the Nashville Java User Group in 2010 and hasn't met a query (yet) that he can't speed up.Felipe Gutierrez worked as Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. He also worked as a Technical Instructor, developing and teaching Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ, and Cloud Foundry. He wrote Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apress. Recently the 3rd version of Pro Spring Boot for Java and Kotlin.About Cockroach Labs:Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.