I take that back the word not the best shouldnt be used. I should of said
in a perfect world we shouldnt have to add columns.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Henkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:56 PM
To: 'Joshua J. Kugler'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Having success with 20 million rows
Well normally its not the best to add columns after the fact if the design
met the specs. But this is not always the case. As we all now the specs
change about every hour.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua J. Kugler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Having success with 20 million rows
FOUR days!?!? THAT'S patience. But I'm glad to hear the success story.
j----- k----
On Wednesday 09 May 2001 11:08, David J. Potter wrote:
> Just wanted to say that we are having success using MySql. Even though
our
> tables are large, over 20 million rows, selects, updates and inserts occur
> very fast. We use both Windows and Linux. Adding a column is the only
> action that is slow (it took 4 days once to add a column), but that is OK
> since we don't change columns often. Overall MySql is turning to be a
> great fast database. David
--
Joshua Kugler
Associated Students of the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Information Services Director
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907-474-7601
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