Re: myisamchk vs OPTIMIZE TABLE

2004-02-08 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 8 Feb 2004, at 20:28, Mark Hazen wrote: My tables are just 2 INT columns. I have unique indexes on them going both ways. Sounds like you're sorted. You know, this might sound strange, but does the performance drop off at all if you lose the indices? A table scan of rows 8 bytes wide is goin

Re: myisamchk vs OPTIMIZE TABLE

2004-02-08 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 8 Feb 2004, at 19:37, Mark Hazen wrote: *snip* Here's my problem: I've got a bunch of tables with hundreds of millions of rows in them. Every night, I delete about couple million rows and then run millions of searches on these tables. What should I worry about more? A sorted index or a da

Re: Macintosh: Trouble with grant tables?

2004-02-08 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 8 Feb 2004, at 1:33, Marty Ray wrote: I am new to mysql and I am having trouble getting started. I am using a Macintosh G5 running OS 10.3.2. I got mysql installed and it would run, however when I tried to create a database, I got an error saying permission denied. I tried running the script

Re: Help with query

2004-02-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 6 Feb 2004, at 14:38, Erich Beyrent wrote: This seems really efficient, since the only large number of rows to search against is the main listings table, if I read this right. Is there any further optimization that I can do, or this as good as it gets? Believe me, I am NOT complaining!!! Yes,

Re: Is there any documentation of Best Practices/Troubleshooting Guides for Administering MySQL

2004-02-04 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 4 Feb 2004, at 20:32, Dan Muey wrote: We are implementing three or four MySql servers (as a start) and I'm writing the Troubleshooting Guide for our operational staff. None of these folks have any MySQL experience (and I'm a newbie myself). I need a pretty basic 'Cheat Sheet' for troubleshooti

Re: databases size limitation #2

2001-01-13 Thread David Hodgkinson
marko milovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > uh! i already posted this message a while ago! > could anyone please help me? > > i could find some informations about increasing the size of the > databases, but not about limitations to their size. > > how would it be possible to set a limitatio

Re: MySQL Performance...

2001-01-12 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Patrick FICHE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just wanted to know if my assertions are rigth and what are the common way > to solve this type of problems ? Store your results into a temporary table? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, Th