On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:06:03AM +0100, Nico Rehmann wrote: > Hi, > > I have a big problem. > I NEED to do a full table scan every month on a table. > I really need all of the data in this table > This table has about 1,2 GB of data. > It takes mysql about 45 minutes to send the data. > > I configured mysql with the my-huge.cnf and > I also tried "record_buffer=50M" > but nothing really changed > > Server: > 2 GB RAM, > 4 IDE Harddisks and IBM RAID Controller > only mysql is running on this server > > What do i have to configure to get these huge amount of data faster? > Or is mysql not the right database for such things?
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