Re: Re: One big table or several smaller tables?

2006-11-28 Thread Dan Buettner
Daniel, you might look into the use of MERGE tables, which are essentially multipule identical MyISAM tables that look like one table. Dan On 11/27/06, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 27 November 2006 13:50, Daniel Smith wrote: Assuming a decent spec server, would a simple

One big table or several smaller tables?

2006-11-27 Thread Daniel Smith
Assuming a decent spec server, would a simple search query on a big indexed table be quicker than searching the amount of data divided into separate tables? The kind of situation I have in mind is a database of events during a year, this table could top 1,000,000 enteries on the vague kind of

Re: One big table or several smaller tables?

2006-11-27 Thread Chris White
On Monday 27 November 2006 13:50, Daniel Smith wrote: Assuming a decent spec server, would a simple search query on a big indexed table be quicker than searching the amount of data divided into separate tables? I'd recommend a single large table with a DATE/DATETIME field which would be