Tag: v1.13.0.2

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Speed Up Customer Segments

An issue you may encounter on larger sites is massive DB load spikes when there is a high order volume and large number of customers stored in the DB. The problem stems from the Enterprise Edition’s Customer Segments module and the way it checks to add a new customer into a segment.

The main culprit is the Enterprise_CustomerSegment_Model_Segment_Condition_Combine_Root class, specifically the _prepareConditionsSql method. This is what generates the SQL that will be run to verify if a customer should be added to this segment when they place an order or sign up. It generates a query like:

SELECT 1 FROM `customer_entity` AS `root` WHERE 
((
    IF((
        SELECT 1 FROM `sales_flat_order_item` AS `item`
        INNER JOIN `sales_flat_order` AS `sales_order` ON item.order_id = sales_order.entity_id
        INNER JOIN `core_store` AS `store` ON sales_order.store_id=store.store_id
        WHERE 
        (sales_order.customer_id = '11111111') 
        AND (store.website_id='1') 
        AND (EXISTS (SELECT `main`.`entity_id` FROM `catalog_product_entity` AS `main` WHERE (main.sku = 'ITEM1') 
        AND (main.entity_id = item.product_id))) LIMIT 1
    ), 1, 0) = 1
))

which has a major issue, the main outer query has no limit! Even worse, it has no where condition to limit the number of rows being returned so what you get is a HUGE amount of rows containing “1” whenever the inner customer+item match is true. When you have 1 million or more customers, this can lead to the DB creating temporary tables on disk since it no longer fits in the maximum memory temp table size which leads to load spikes if you are getting any sizable amount of orders being placed. Continue reading →

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Catalog And Shopping Cart Pricing Rules Stacking

Ran into an issue today that I thought I would share a fix for, having catalog and shopping cart pricing rules stack their discount on each other. What do I mean?

Say you have a catalog price rule that gives a 25% discount to all items in a certain category so a product with a base price of $20 would display with a discount to $15. Now, you have a coupon code for 30% off any purchase setup as a shopping cart price rule in the admin. What happens when a user adds this item to their cart and applies the coupon code? With default Magento it runs as follows:
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Fixing Duplicate Entry Error From Custom Order Prefix

This is something we ran into during the testing of a new Magento website. We started getting “Payment Transaction Failed Reminder” emails from the system. The client reported that they would just be presented with an error message during checkout when they tried to place the order and it would just keep returning the error no matter how many times they tried to submit it.

Looking at the email sent by the system, the error message being returned was:

SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ‘T000112’ for key 2

After investigating a bit, I found that someone else had already placed an order and taken that increment_id which is why this order was returning an error. This was a bit odd since Magento is supposed to be keeping track of these things and automatically ensure order numbers are never the same. Even looking at the sales_flat_quote table showed two entries with the same reserved_order_id which should not happen.
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