>
> 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And I've filled this with a bit of data.  Well, more than a bit -  5,791,651 rows 
>actually.  Still, while this is large, it doesn't seem rediculously huge.
>
> Let's say I want to perform a query to select the last 22 days worth of closing 
>prices for stock ABC.  I run the query:
>
> 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mysql> select close from shares where symbol='abc' and date < current_date() order 
>by date desc limit 22;
> 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

try this, it should help:

select close from shares where symbol like 'abc' and date < current_date()
order by date desc limit 22;


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