Actually, I've been looking pretty closely at a couple of other tables I wanted to implement as HEAP tables -- and I didn't even think about moving my little lookup tables into HEAP. :)
Thanks! --jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Zawodny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeff Kilbride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 7:19 PM Subject: Re: Lookup tables and indexing > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:14:51PM -0800, Jeff Kilbride wrote: > > > > Is there a rule of thumb for small tables and whether they should be > > indexed? I have several small, two column lookup tables with few > > rows (100-300) and some very small tables (< 10 rows). I don't plan > > on indexing the very small ones, but what about the others? > > You could copy them to HEAP tables at server start and reap the > benefits of it's hash indexing. :-) > > Jeremy > -- > Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance > Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 > > MySQL 3.23.47-max: up 23 days, processed 765,521,656 queries (376/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
