RE: Repair with key cache

2002-05-13 Thread Ramon Arias
Jereymy, Thanks a lot for your explanation on "Repair with key cache", I was reading the online help, but could not get a clear picture of what was going on. So I gess allocating as much memory as posible to the key buffer will improve the performance of this stage? Thanks Ramon -O

RE: mysqlimpor and fixed length files.

2002-05-01 Thread Ramon Arias
Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:55 PM To: 'Ramon Arias'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mysqlimpor and fixed length files. [snip] The way that I have been doing it so far is by coverting the source data into tab delimited format with a 'C' utility that I wrote and then loading it u

RE: mysqlimpor and fixed length files.

2002-05-01 Thread Ramon Arias
Brian! Using mysqlimport with no delimiters worked fine. Thanks a lot... Ramon -Original Message- From: Brian Ivins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:36 PM To: 'Ramon Arias '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: mysqlimpor and fixed

RE: mysqlimpor and fixed length files.

2002-05-01 Thread Ramon Arias
tep that I am trying to avoid requires a few hours of waiting an about 50 Gigs of extra disk space. Any suggestions? Ramon -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:54 AM To: 'Ramon Arias'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: mysqlimpor and fixed length files.

2002-05-01 Thread Ramon Arias
Jay I need to break it up into fields Ramon -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:26 AM To: 'Ramon Arias'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mysqlimpor and fixed length files. [snip] Is there a way to import data

mysqlimpor and fixed length files.

2002-05-01 Thread Ramon Arias
Hello there! Is there a way to import data that is in fixed length format into MySQL? Ramon - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archiv

Pushing the limits!

2002-04-30 Thread Ramon Arias
I am running a pretty big database in MySQL, about 120 million records. Indexes are very important for the performance of the database. Every time I alter the tables to add indexes I takes about 3 hours of processing time. I was wondering what would be a good rule of thumb for optimizing the serve