Re: Index and Order By

2007-01-15 Thread Brent Baisley
It's possible mysql optimizes queries incorrectly. I've had to "correct it" on a few occasions. If you look at the results of the explain for Q1, you'll notice that in both queries the key_len is 1. Meaning Mysql thinks it only needs to look at the first "character" of the index. Based on that "o

Re: Index and Order By

2007-01-15 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi Kelvin, all! Kelvin Wu wrote: I am looking for help and suggestion. Mysql Ver 12.18 Distrib 4.0.12, for pc-linux (i686) The table structure: [[...]] I created multiple parts of Index for this table: [[...]] And here are the questions: Q1: the query is supposed to use index bynone but ...

Re: Index and Order By

2007-01-13 Thread Kelvin Wu
BTW, I have force to use index key by using USE INDEX (bysource) for example, in the query, but it didn't look good to me... -- Sent from my BlackBerry. Ignore the typos unless they're funny.