Matthew Wilson writes:
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>I suspect this is a universal problem. All general advice would be
>appreciated. Perhaps a stored procedure is not the way to go.
Mysql 5.1 has CREATE EVENT, that somewhat mimics Oracle's jobs.
I prefer to run a shell script in a cron job, like this:
#!/bin/bas
I wrote a fairly large query that summarizes our sales into monthly
totals by business unit, then left joins on some other information from
a bunch of other tables.
Running the query takes a long time.
I'm considering whether to store my summary data as a table, like this:
create table monthly_t
