I'm using MySQL to track data throughput information on my company's routers. The routers are queried every 5 minutes 24 hours/day. I need to produce a report showing data accumulated during business hours - Monday through Friday, 8:00-5:00.
The program to pull the data and manipulate it will be written in PERL. What I don't know is, will it be more efficient to have the PERL program query data from MySQL only for business hours or should I write the MySQL query (and sub-query) to only SELECT data from business hours. I can do either one, I just don't know which one would be best. I'm running MySQL 4.0.16 standard on a Sun e250 running Solaris 8. The database consists of around 650 tables ranging in size from 20 KB to 3-4 GB (approx. 12 million records). Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. If more info is needed, please let me know. Jack Jack Coxen IP Network Engineer TelCove 712 North Main Street Coudersport, PA 16915 814-260-2705
