On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:42:07AM -0600, BD wrote: > > Jeremy, > > Thanks, I hadn't thought of TinyText. With flat file type > databases that I used to use, if I put something in a memo field, it > takes longer to retrieve the data because it is stored in a separate > physical file. There is a noticeable lag on slow machines.
Right, I've seen that too. > I was wondering if using a Text (or TinyText) in MySQL exhibited > noticeably slower record retrieval when hundreds of users are > querying the database. Or is it too small to notice? I'd expect it to be rather small, since the data is all stored in the same place. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 25 days, processed 552,420,629 queries (253/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
