CHAR vs TEXT and fast Row Updates

2006-01-17 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi All, We have an application that needs to update rows in the database 'as fast and efficiently' as possible. To this end, we've tried re-designing the table - can someone clarify the following assumptions we're about to make? 1. Fixed length CHAR fields are quicker to update than

Re: How to get the last record from the slected record set

2004-08-23 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 22 August 2004 20:31 +0800 Manisha Sathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having more than 10 records in a table. I want to select only first top 10 records (depending on one field score) and then want to select 10th position record. select * from table1 order by score desc LIMIT 10 This will

Re: How to get the last record from the slected record set

2004-08-23 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 22 August 2004 21:05 +0800 Manisha Sathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to select first 10 records out of 100. And then get the 10th position. If i make use of order by score asc limit 1 then I will get 100th record, How shall i pick up 10th position? I'm not quite sure I follow what

Re: Help in Administration

2001-08-06 Thread Karl Pielorz
On 05 August 2001 23:42 -0700 Schajee Achmad wrote, now I get this error Access Denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO). I've tried several ways o get out of this mess, even the documentation of MySQL but there is no mention of this error. Run up mysql with the