Re: Almost beating Rushmore -- was: Really slow query (compared with Visual FoxPro)

2003-10-28 Thread Alexander Barkov
Héctor, Changing various buffer sizes can improve performance significantly, with key_buffer_size as the first thing to tune. Also, make sure you are using not debugging version of the server. Please also take a look in this section of the documentation for details: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/

Almost beating Rushmore -- was: Really slow query (compared with Visual FoxPro)

2003-10-28 Thread "Héctor Villafuerte D."
Hi guys! Ok, I'm closer to beat Rushmore (VFP optimizer) now! After some reading about MySQL optimization techniques, here is the summary of what I've done: 1. Add a compound index to the table 2. Use EXPLAIN to check out the query (with GROUP BY on multiple fields) 3. Create the summary table And