Christopher, Friday, January 25, 2002, 1:05:02 AM, you wrote:
[max length of a string] CT> you may want to do this programatically in a small C++ CT> (or C, or whatever) program. It _may_ be faster. It may not, there'll be CT> a lot of network traffic. SQL servers tend to be rather bad at string CT> manipulation, something like this would be easy in C or in Perl. IMHO: I don't think so. Something that MySQL server runs internally differs a lot from something that is done outside, like retrieving of all records over a network and counting them on its own. I would rather tell that puddling the data traffic over a unix domain socket or even over a tcp connection will not improve a performance. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/ This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
