Re: query tuning

2012-11-15 Thread James W. McNeely
Note the huge estimated number of rows. That should decline significantly. What's the value of key_buffer_size? It should generally be 20% of _available_ RAM (for MyISAM usage). -Original Message- From: James W. McNeely [mailto:jmcne...@nwrads.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012

query tuning

2012-11-14 Thread James W. McNeely
I have a query I'm having trouble with. If do this query which is DATE plus ProcModecode, it is very fast: SELECT e.zzk FROM exams e -- JOIN Appt_ a ON e.IdAppt = a.IdAppt -- JOIN Affil_ af ON a.IdAffil_primary = af.IdAffil WHERE e.dateexam = '2012-09-01' AND e.dateexam = '2012-09-30' AND

Re: query tuning

2012-11-14 Thread James W. McNeely
) -- in that order (I can't predict which index it would use.) Are IdAppt the same datatype and collation in each table? -Original Message- From: James W. McNeely [mailto:jmcne...@nwrads.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 2:34 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: query tuning I have

view query is slow

2012-08-23 Thread James W. McNeely
I am working on a view based on this query: === SELECT -- Patient Info p.IdPatient, p.IdLastword MRN, p.NameLast, p.NameFirst, p.Addr1, p.Addr2, p.AddrCity, p.AddrState, p.AddrZip, p.Gender, p.DateOfBirth, -- Provider Info af.IdAffil, af.PractName,

Re: view query is slow

2012-08-23 Thread James W. McNeely
difference between the two. Jim McNeely On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Shawn Green wrote: On 8/23/2012 2:30 PM, James W. McNeely wrote: I am working on a view based on this query: === SELECT -- Patient Info p.IdPatient, p.IdLastword MRN, p.NameLast

Re: view query is slow

2012-08-23 Thread James W. McNeely
This didn't help, but good try! Jim McNeely On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Martin Gainty wrote: If memory serves predicates convert strings to column-data-type (in your case DATE) this *should* help WHERE dateexam = STR_TO_DATE('2012-08-13','%Y-%m-%d') does this help? Martin

Re: view query is slow

2012-08-23 Thread James W. McNeely
I think I'll just make a nightly process run that drops and then recreates the table, unless someone has a workable idea of how to make this view query-able. Thanks! Jim McNeely On Aug 23, 2012, at 2:06 PM, James W. McNeely wrote: This didn't help, but good try! Jim McNeely On Aug 23

mysqldump not escaping single quotes in field data

2012-06-15 Thread James W. McNeely
My backups from a mysqldump process are useless, because the dump files are not escaping single quotes in the data in the fields. So, O'Brien kills it - instead of spitting out 'O\'Brien' it spits out 'O'Brien' I don't see anywhere in the documentation about mysqldump where you can tweak