Re: Scalability question

2003-09-25 Thread Begumisa Gerald M.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > Which is likely to be slower. Wow! > [...] Just give it lots of Ram so that it can cache its indexes in > mamory, and it will perform very well. Thanks for taking time to answer this. Cheers, Gerald -- MySQL General Mailing List For list

Re: Scalability question

2003-09-25 Thread Alec . Cawley
> Imagine I had a table with 50,000,000 rows, would it improve search speeds > if I split it up into smaller tables of 10,000,000 rows each? This means > if I had to search for a record, I'd have to query the 5 tables one after > the other. Which is likely to be slower. If you have good indexes