Re: Help querying a simple but large table

2001-03-15 Thread James Blackwell
Is like that much faster than =? If so, this would be a good thing to know. I'm assuming that not putting a % either before or after the variable would make it the equivilent of an =. Can you possibly point me somewhere that explains this a bit or possibly gives some kind of benchmarks? Tha

Re: use one database or many databases

2001-03-14 Thread James Blackwell
use one database, and lookup the clients table names, and >use a merge table for reports. >James Blackwell wrote: > > I have a similiar situation where I've got a huge database that maintains data for >quite a few clients. Queries have gotten extremely sluggish. > >

RE: use one database or many databases

2001-03-14 Thread James Blackwell
I have a similiar situation where I've got a huge database that maintains data for quite a few clients. Queries have gotten extremely sluggish. What I'm working on right now is to have a control database with a single table that contains a unique identifier for each client and a database name.

Upgrade with unexpected results

2001-03-08 Thread James Blackwell
Can anyone shed a little light on this for me? I've got a mysql installation that has been running for over 2 years now. As the database has grown to over 250Meg (not TOO large at all) things have kind of slowed down. We're running this on a RH box with mysql v3.23.32. So, we bought a new s