Re: Large Query Question.

2008-09-04 Thread David Ashley
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM, mos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Jim, The problem is likely your index is not defined properly. Use an "Explain" in front of the query to see if it can use just one index from each table. I would try building a compound index on Products: (RecordReference, FeedId)

Re: Large Query Question.

2008-09-04 Thread mos
Jim, I've re-posted your message to the list so others can join in the fray. :) Mike At 10:50 AM 9/4/2008, you wrote: Hi Mike, I do believe we have done the indexing properly. Please advise if we can make any adjustments. Here is the output from the explain statements; 16634be.png

RE: Large Query Question.

2008-09-04 Thread Jerry Schwartz
>-Original Message- >From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:35 PM >To: Jim Leavitt >Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: Re: Large Query Question. > >That's a lot of data to return, make sure you factor in data loa

Re: Large Query Question.

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Lyons
It's highly unlikely hardware upgrades are needed unless you're on a really underpowered machine. How similar are the queries on the other machines? The "limit" clause won't reduce the time taken to do the join and grouping, it will only reduce the amount of output. Also, I assumeyou have indexes

Re: Large Query Question.

2008-09-04 Thread mos
At 02:49 PM 9/3/2008, Jim Leavitt wrote: Hi Mike, Yes sometimes, the application is an online book selection tool with about 1 million titles in it. Now the queries which return 100,000 rows would be something like returning all titles from a given publisher. Most of the common searches are

Re: Large Query Question.

2008-09-03 Thread David Ashley
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jim Leavitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are having trouble with certain queries which are returning anywhere > from 10 - 30 rows. Total query time is taking approx 1 - 2 mins > depending on load. Is there anything in our conf file which could improve

RE: Large Query Question.

2008-09-03 Thread Tom Horstmann
@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Large Query Question. That's a lot of data to return, make sure you factor in data load and transfer time. You may try breaking your query into smaller parts and recombining the results in a scripting language. If you are searching on a range (i.e. date range), brea

Re: Large Query Question.

2008-09-03 Thread Brent Baisley
That's a lot of data to return, make sure you factor in data load and transfer time. You may try breaking your query into smaller parts and recombining the results in a scripting language. If you are searching on a range (i.e. date range), break the range into smaller parts and run multiple queries

Re: Large Query Question.

2008-09-03 Thread Jim Lyons
What are the queries? Are they straight forward selects or joins? Are the columns you select from indexed and are the indexes up-to-date? On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Jim Leavitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings List, > > We have a medium-large size database application which we are t

Re: Large Query Question.

2008-09-03 Thread mos
Jim, Retrieving 100,000 rows will always take some time. Do you really need to return that many rows? Are you selecting just the columns you need? What are the slow queries? Mike At 12:05 PM 9/3/2008, Jim Leavitt wrote: Greetings List, We have a medium-large size database application