Re: URGENT: Question on table storage

2006-12-19 Thread Christian Hammers


On 2006-12-19 Prem wrote:
 I am using this table to store all the websites accessed by each employees.
I hope you're aware that your country might have data privacy laws, too..

 There is no primary key on that table since the same employee will access 
 more than 
 100 sites per day. If there is 100 employees then the rows inserted per day 
 will be  
 ~ 100*100= 1. If it grows till 2 months or 3 months then the table size 
 will 
 become larger. As we all know the default table size in MySQl is 4 GB.
Default table size maybe but a MyISAM table can grow beyond 4GB without 
problems.
(just try it by inserting lines with a script)

The general advice for handling such big tables is to either build a map table 
that maps
long hostnames to numbers (4 = www.google.com) to safe space or to use one 
table per
day and use a Merge-Table to access them all in one SELECT.

bye,

-christian-

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RE: URGENT: Question on table storage

2006-12-19 Thread Tom Horstmann
Hi,

 I have the following table in mysql 5.0.20...
 
 employ
 ==
 empid
 date_time
 site
 
 I am using this table to store all the websites accessed by each
 employees. There is no primary key on that table since the same
 employee will access more than 100 sites per day. If there is 100
 employees then the rows inserted per day will be  ~ 100*100= 1. If
 it grows till 2 months or 3 months then the table size will become
 larger. As we all know the default table size in MySQl is 4 GB.
 
 Can anyone explain will it produce issues in the future? How to
 overcome this? How to design a table for this scenario?

maybe this is still correct:
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000796.html

But perhaps you don't need it at all:

1 records * e.g. 300 byte = 300 byte/day
4GB = 4294967296 byte
4294967296 byte / 300 byte/day = 1431 days

No issues for about 3 years. And after that time you could simply create a
new table.

hth,

Tom Horstmann




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