You may want to try disabling the index during the insert:
ALTER TABLE table1 DISABLE KEYS;
insert into table1 select * from table2;
ALTER TABLE table1 ENABLE KEYS;
And see what that does.
See: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ALTER_TABLE.html
Regards,
Mike Hillyer
www.vbmysql.com
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I think we need more info: Table definition, MySQL version etc..
Med venlig hilsen
Lars Geisler
>
> -Original Message-
> From: "Roman Neuhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Amit Lonkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-24 20:32:48 -0700:
> insert into table1 select * from table2;
>
> Table2 has some 10,000 records while table1 has around
> 11,00,000 records. The time reqd. to execute the above
> query is round about 80- 90 secs.
>
> The table1 has 7 columns out of which 5 are comp
