Hello, On 08/03/2002 01:36 AM, Lord Loh. wrote: > I have a database of mysql with 3 million records. No query is performed in > less than 10 seconds!(With Index and all that)
The index will not do magic by itself, especially if it is not unique. > Any way to speed this up ? Sometimes your queries need to be rewritten > How on earth does US Social Security dept. maintain so many records ? Most likely they use Oracle or something as sophisticated that among other things can do table partitioning. > Google has 1 billion pages and qurys in a few milliseconds... Real search engines do not use SQL databases. > I am not saying that they are using MySQL! > > Should this be asked in a mysql list ? Please suggest a NNTP server! Yes, MySQL is good but it is not magic. You can stretch it a bit with some optimization of your setup, but what often works better is rethinking your application. Does it really need to store 3 million records? -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
