Re: Help querying a simple but large table

2001-03-15 Thread James Blackwell
Is like that much faster than =? If so, this would be a good thing to know. I'm assuming that not putting a % either before or after the variable would make it the equivilent of an =. Can you possibly point me somewhere that explains this a bit or possibly gives some kind of benchmarks? Tha

Re: Help querying a simple but large table

2001-03-15 Thread David Diaz i Torrico
> > > > > And I've filled this with a bit of data. Well, more than a bit - 5,791,651 rows >actually. Still, while this is large, it doesn't seem rediculously huge. > > Let's say I want to perform a query

Re: Help querying a simple but large table

2001-03-15 Thread Fred van Engen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:32:37AM +1030, Dan Makovec wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having problems getting reasonable speed queries from a simple table. > ... > I've created a simple table that contains stock exchange data, as follows: > > CREATE TABLE shares ( > date date DEFAULT '-00-00' NO

Help querying a simple but large table

2001-03-15 Thread Dan Makovec
Hi all,   I'm having problems getting reasonable speed queries from a simple table.   First, a little info about my server setup:   From mysqladmin version: mysqladmin  Ver 7.11 Distrib 3.22.27, for -free