Optimizing server variables for unindexed queries

2005-04-03 Thread Jan Pieter Kunst
Greetings, I sent this mail to the list a week ago, but haven't seen any replies ... surely someone on this list must have some ideas? Suppose I have a MySQL server which processes lots of queries that cannot use indexes on VARCHAR fields because they involve REGEXP clauses and LIKE '%...%', most

Optimizing server variables for unindexed queries

2005-03-26 Thread Jan Pieter Kunst
Greetings, Suppose I have a MySQL server which processes lots of queries that cannot use indexes on VARCHAR fields because they involve REGEXP clauses and LIKE '%...%', most of them also having an ORDER BY. Both MyISAM and InnoDB tables. What would be the best server variables to tune in that case