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Hope that helps! On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:01:43 +0100, Lending, Rune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all. > > I am having a couple of tables with couple of hundre millions records in > them. The tables contains a timestamp column. > I am almost always interested in getting datas from a specific day or month. > Each day contains aprox. 400.000 entries. > > When I do such queries as " select ... from archive where m_date between > '2005-01-01' and '2005-02-01' group by ... " and so on. > It takes very long. I am having indexes that kicks in, but still it takes > sometime. > > I have splitted the archive table in smaller monthly tables, it then goes a > lot faster, but not fast enough. > > I know simular systems that uses Oracle and gains a lot on performance > because of the partioning. That kind of anoyes me a bit :) > > Does anyone of you have some good ideas on how speed up such queries on > huge tables? > > regards > rune > > > > -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
