Jigal,
Thanks, I'll give this a go...
Ben
Jigal van Hemert wrote:
Ben Clewett wrote:
But the index does not seem nearly as fast as liner (normal) indexes.
Hence using a less effective liner index may be better...
After this method I still need select a radius within these data
points, more effort.
This could be an excellent case for using HAVING <expr>
The WHERE can use an index and be very fast selecting the records that
might fall within the circle. The HAVING clause will be executed after
the record set is built and remove the records outside the circle, but
within the square. If the number of records you select is pretty limited
(a few hundred or so) the POW() calculations will not ask too much from
the server, but the full table scan is avoided...
Regards, Jigal.
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