Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a while..
I have a table ITEMS with about 15 fields that can be used in any combination in where queries, let me call these fields f1 to f15. There are also 3 fields used for ordering, let's call them o1 to o3. So the table is: tablename (id, title, f1, f2, f3, f4, ..., f15, o1, o2, o3) f1 to f15 are all int(11). The table contains, let's say, 50,000 rows. The queries sent against this table can combine up to 4 f-fields, and 1 ordering field. So it could be: - SELECT * FROM table WHERE f3=x AND f7=x AND f12=x ORDER BY o3 DESC and so on.. you get the idea. The question is: we need indexes to make this go fast. How many indexes do we need? It doesn't seem like it would make sense to make an index for every possible combination... but there must be a way to do this intelligently? Any input is very welcome! I hope I explained the problem clearly? Thanks, Peter -- find videoblogs: http://mefeedia.com my blog: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/ my job: http://petervandijck.net -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]