On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Ralf Narozny wrote:
> Hello!
>
> James MacLean wrote:
>
> >Hi Folks,
> >Have only known enough SQL to do what we needed.
> >Today on mysql-3.23.51 we found out that :
> >select something from table where index1 = 'value' or index2 = 'value';
> >Runs considerably slower than:
> >select something from table where index1 = 'value';
> >or
> >select something from table where index2 = 'value';
>
> Does it have a compund index, created like this:
> CREATE INDEX myindex ON table (index1,index2);
>
> ???
> Greetings
> Ralf
Just tried that and it almost doubled my time again (to over 1sec) :(.
Thanks for the idea though :), welcome any more :),
JES
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James B. MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Education
Nova Scotia, Canada
B3M 4B2
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