Any way to hint a particular index for a query?

2002-03-05 Thread Shankar Unni
(Using mysql 3.23.38 - commercial version) I have a table that has two indexes: one on just creationTime (iv_alert_creation_ix), and one on (state, creationTime) (iv_alert_state_ix). When I issue this query: explain select uuid from iv_alert where state = 1 and creationTime =

Re: Any way to hint a particular index for a query?

2002-03-05 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi, On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 11:12, Shankar Unni wrote: (Using mysql 3.23.38 - commercial version) I have a table that has two indexes: one on just creationTime (iv_alert_creation_ix), and one on (state, creationTime) (iv_alert_state_ix). When I issue this query: explain select uuid

Re: Any way to hint a particular index for a query?

2002-03-05 Thread Shankar Unni
Steven Roussey wrote: Any way to hint a particular index for a query? From the manual (http://www.mysql.com/doc/J/O/JOIN.html) Thanks. I missed that. Unfortunately, as I was afraid, this is a very MySQL-specific way of doing it. But then, hints always are DB-specific, so that's not too

Re: Any way to hint a particular index for a query?

2002-03-05 Thread Steven Roussey
Any way to hint a particular index for a query? From the manual (http://www.mysql.com/doc/J/O/JOIN.html) As of MySQL Version 3.23.12, you can give hints about which index MySQL should use when retrieving information from a table. This is useful if EXPLAIN shows that MySQL is using the wrong