On 2011-10-25, at 6:56 PM, Jason Pruim <li...@pruimphotography.com> wrote:
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> Jason Pruim
> li...@pruimphotography.com
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>
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> On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Jim Giner wrote:
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>> Again why even do a detail query? Nobody is going to examine pages and
>> pages and etc.
>> Do a summary qry if u just need a count - no pagination there
>> jg
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>
> The bosses wanted them to be able to page through the results... But I might
> bring that up to them again... Working with 89 million records (With the
> number going up and expanding in the future) could cause lots of issues in
> the long run...
Guarantee the bosses will never use it. If they had to page thru 89m records,
they'd rebel too
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>> On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Jason Pruim <li...@pruimphotography.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Jason Pruim
>>> li...@pruimphotography.com
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Jim Giner wrote:
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>>>> I disagree. It's not about "tuning the queries", it is more about the
>>>> appl.
>>>> design that currently thinks it SHOULD do such huge queries.
>>>>
>>>> My approach would be to prompt the user for filtering criteria that
>>>> automatically would reduce the result set size. Although at this time I
>>>> believe the OP mentioned that the db is just telephone numbers so that
>>>> doesn't leave much room for filter-criteria.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes it is just phone numbers... The only select that I'm running on the
>>> entire site is related to the pagination... A simple:
>>> $sqlCount = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM main WHERE state = '{$state}'";
>>>
>>> which limits it to everything inside the state... Unfortunately if you look
>>> at the possibilities, it's still quite a large dataset... 89 million :)
>>>
>>> The rest of the query's will be much more limited to areacode, exchange,
>>> and in some cases the full phone number... Maybe the better way to do it
>>> would be not to count the records.... But set a variable with the total
>>> count... That way I don't have to load all the data... The data amount
>>> won't change alot... Easy enough to set a variable... Just need to see if
>>> I can integrate that with the pagination...
>>>
>>> Back to the drawing board! :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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