Re: Slow Union Statement

2010-04-05 Thread Rudy Lippan
On 04/05/2010 02:06 PM, chen jia wrote: Hi there, I run simple statement like this: create table c select * from a union select * from b; where table a has 90,402,534 rows, and table b has 33,358,725 rows. Both tables have the same three variables. It's taken a long time, more

RE: Slow Union Statement

2010-04-05 Thread Gavin Towey
Union does a distinct on all results. UNION ALL will avoid that. Regards, Gavin Towey -Original Message- From: chen.1...@gmail.com [mailto:chen.1...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of chen jia Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:07 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Slow Union Statement Hi there,

Re: Slow Union Statement

2010-04-05 Thread chen jia
Yes, that's the trick. Thank Rudy and Gavin. Best, Jia On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Gavin Towey gto...@ffn.com wrote: Union does a distinct on all results.  UNION ALL will avoid that. Regards, Gavin Towey -Original Message- From: chen.1...@gmail.com [mailto:chen.1...@gmail.com]