Hi all. I alreaedy posted about this, but I get more and more confused ! My temporary tables are ALWAYS created as temporary disk tables !
Here is the query : SELECT commerces.enseigne FROM cellules INNER JOIN commerces ON (cellules.indexCelluleCommerce=commerces.indexCelluleCommerce) WHERE cellules.CodeSite = "SIT7401011" GROUP BY cellules.indexcellulecommerce the fields commerces.enseigne and cellules.CodeSite are CHAR(255), cellules.indexcellulecommerce is INT(11) Here is the explain : EXPLAIN SELECT commerces.enseigne FROM cellules INNER JOIN commerces ON (cellules.indexCelluleCommerce=commerces.indexCelluleCommerce) WHERE cellules.CodeSite = "SIT7401011" GROUP BY cellules.indexcellulecommerce Result : | cellules | ref | CodeSite,IndexCelluleCommerce | CodeSite | 21 | const | 34 | where used; Using temporary | | commerces | ref | IndexCelluleCommerce | IndexCelluleCommerce | 5 | cellules.IndexCelluleCommerce | 20 | where used | All the fields in this query are indexed. (not unique) Now my server variables : tmp_table_size = 384M max_heap_table_size = 384M version = 3.23.54-nt And the status (the annoying part!!!) : created_tmp_disk_tables 1 created_disk_tables 1 (I checked before and after the query, they both get increased by one) I understand that the temporary table is created because of the GROUP BY clause, but why on disk ??? How could I work around this? Thanks a lot if anyone can help! Arnaud -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]