articles discuss performance tuning and optimization of Drupal as it pertains to web sites with a large number of visits and page views.

The Database Scripts project a series of command line scripts which will dump, erase, restore and merge databases. They are specifically set up to work the best when developing within the subversion version control environment. Their primary goal is to keep database configuration settings in sync with file changes, and then to allow a method to merge a development database with the production database

From the early days, Drupal had the ability to embed PHP code in its content. This provides flexibility and functionality, most importantly, nodes and blocks can contain dynamically fetched data from the database using custom queries and displayed them in other content. This is an easy approach to get such data without writing a module. All you need to do is assign the PHP input format filter to the node or block and paste your PHP code in it, and voila, you have dynamic content. Code in Content: the issues However, this approach is suboptimal and has serious drawbacks, including:

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