On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 14:56 -0400, Frank Bax wrote: > At 02:22 PM 5/10/05, Paul Halliday wrote: > >Now, as time progresses the queires are getting slower and slower. > >I know this is expected, > > > I don't think so. I thought that if the number of rows returned does not > change and an index is properly used, then query time should not change > significantly as size of database grows. >
True, for the appropriate definition of 'significantly'. Also false, for the appropriate definition of 'significantly'. The index's are trees which must be searched, this is fairly fast and the time doesn't grow linearly or anything like that, but the time does of course grow with more rows. So if the number of rows increases greatly then a noticable increase in the time to search the index may occur. John -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
