RE: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-19 Thread John Mancuso
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: maximum number of records in a table At 6:24 PM -0400 6/11/07, kalin mintchev wrote: >hi all... > >from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/features.html: > >"Handles lar

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-19 Thread Paul DuBois
At 6:24 PM -0400 6/11/07, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/features.html: "Handles large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 60,000 tables and about 5,000,000,00

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread kalin mintchev
> You should be fine. 100 000 000 is not that much. > Just make sure you set the right keys (and then query by them) on the > table > and even more importantly, set caches and buffers to utilize your RAM > appropriately. thanks. > Olaf > > > On 6/12/07 11:09 AM, "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread J.R. Bullington
From: "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: maximum number of records in a table thanks j.r... > > Olaf is right. > > It is really more about query execution time, and more import

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread Olaf Stein
You should be fine. 100 000 000 is not that much. Just make sure you set the right keys (and then query by them) on the table and even more importantly, set caches and buffers to utilize your RAM appropriately. Olaf On 6/12/07 11:09 AM, "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I guess a l

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread Jon Ribbens
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:09:41AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > > I guess a lot of that depends what an acceptable query execution time for > > you is. > > well... i don't really know. 30 secs maximum?! i've never worked with > such huge tables. 3 - 5 million records is fine but i've never work

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread kalin mintchev
From: Olaf Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David T. Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: maximum number of records in a table > > I guess a lot of that depends what an

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread kalin mintchev
From: Olaf Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David T. Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: maximum number of records in a table > > I guess a lot of that depends what an

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread kalin mintchev
> I guess a lot of that depends what an acceptable query execution time for > you is. well... i don't really know. 30 secs maximum?! i've never worked with such huge tables. 3 - 5 million records is fine but i've never worked on a db with a table with 100 000 000 records. > Also, what else does

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread J.R. Bullington
ct: Re: maximum number of records in a table I guess a lot of that depends what an acceptable query execution time for you is. Also, what else does the machine do, are there other databases or tables that are queried at the same time, do you have to join other tables in for your queries, etc? Ol

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread Olaf Stein
I guess a lot of that depends what an acceptable query execution time for you is. Also, what else does the machine do, are there other databases or tables that are queried at the same time, do you have to join other tables in for your queries, etc? Olaf On 6/12/07 3:24 AM, "kalin mintchev" <[EMA

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-12 Thread kalin mintchev
hi david.. thanks... i've done this many times and yes either trough php, perl, python or on the mysql cl client. but my question here is not about doing it and insert times it's more about hosting it and query times. i currently have a working table for the same purpose with about 1.5 million r

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-11 Thread David T. Ashley
On 6/11/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all... from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/features.html: "Handles large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 60,000 tables and about 5,000

Re: maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-11 Thread kalin mintchev
> The answer depends upon the actual queries and/or how much data is being > returned. there is ALWAYS only one record found/returned per query it's like looking up one unique id it's like checking if number 5893786 is there in row number one... or something like number 5893786 - a uniqu

maximum number of records in a table

2007-06-11 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/features.html: "Handles large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 60,000 tables and about 5,000,000,000 rows." that's cool but i assume this is distrib

Re: Number Of Records in a Table

2002-04-30 Thread Paul DuBois
At 12:13 -0400 4/30/02, Andrew Kuebler wrote: >Everyone on this list has been very helpful so far. I greatly appreciate >all the help! > >I use Perl/DBI with MySQL. Normally to count records, I pull a query >like: > >$a = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM table"); >$a->execute; > >Then: > >$numrows = $a

Re: Number Of Records in a Table

2002-04-30 Thread Shaun Bramley
$a = $db->prepare("SELECT COUNT(table.column) FROM TABLE"); $a->execute - Original Message - From: "Andrew Kuebler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:13 PM Subject: Number Of Records in a Table > Every

Number Of Records in a Table

2002-04-30 Thread Andrew Kuebler
Everyone on this list has been very helpful so far. I greatly appreciate all the help! I use Perl/DBI with MySQL. Normally to count records, I pull a query like: $a = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM table"); $a->execute; Then: $numrows = $a->rows; to get a total count of records in the table. Is