Hi, all,
I'm still very much a newbie at MySQL, and thought a good starter project would be a simple places database of every populated place-name in the world along with its latitude and longitude. I already have the data, and originally planned to have only 4 tables with 2-4 fields each: Places: placename, adm2code, lat, lon ADM2 (e.g. county): adm2name, adm2code, adm1code ADM1 (e.g. state): adm1name, adm1code, countrycode Country: countryname, countrycode After importing the data, however, I realized that my key-ing must be wrong. I didn't key the placename because they're not guaranteed to be unique, but that means that a search for "Artesia" takes many (~30) seconds to complete, which is really not very useful. Does anyone have any suggestions on how this is done? I'm sure the same problem comes up when searching for "Tom Jones" in a names database... Thanks in advance. - Bryan -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
