On 1/17/11 9:52 AM, Jerry Schwartz wrote:
[JS] I don't understand how an index on a timestamp would help. Theoretically,
each record could have a unique value for the timestamp; so the index would
have an entry for each record. Would MySQL really use that in preference to,
or in combination with, an index on devid?

You are correct.  The ideal index would be across (devid, stamp).

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