Re: Indexing problem with large database

2001-05-25 Thread ryc
With the correct indexes this query should run in less than a second. Basically what you should do is make an index for every column that is used in the where clause. For instance, if you had a query ... WHERE A=X AND B=Y AND C=Z (A,B,and C are in the same table) you would create an index (A,B,C)

Indexing problem with large database

2001-05-25 Thread Mike W. Baranski
Folks, I am with Security Managment Consulting, and we have a liscensed copy of mysql. I don't have the lisc. # on hand. We have a very large database in mysql, and one of the tables (call it badge_history) has about 4,000,000 records, with the potiental to get much bigger... Now, we are using