Dear C. Bensend wrote:
I am parsing and storing emails, so I have a lot of character string
data to worry about. In one particular table, I have 26 columns of type
varchar, with widths of 24-8192 characters. This is the table that is
giving me some pretty severe performance problems.
For example, many of the statistics I run against these emails is a
simple count(), whether it be on a column or *. Right now, counting the
rows takes in excess of 3.5 seconds. OK, that's pretty slow. However,
there are only --> 24,000 <-- rows in this table! I could see it taking
a long time if I had 500,000 rows, or a million, but 24,000?
For similar post someone suggested to do a count like
select count(*) from table where any = any limit 1 ;
Try this look if thiers any performance increase.
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Regards,
Vishal Kashyap
Director / Lead Software Developer,
Sai Hertz And Control Systems Pvt Ltd,
http://saihertz.rediffblogs.com
Yahoo IM: mailforvishal[ a t ]yahoo.com
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