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Lesson 19 — Avoiding N+1
Fetch related data once
Looking up related rows in a loop causes many queries (N+1). Prefetch into a dict instead.
Why it matters: it is the top performance fix in ORMs.
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Task
Join orders to a users dict in one pass.
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