Re: Speedup of database changes

2006-07-11 Thread Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
Brent Baisley wrote: > There will always be new requests, but many times you can store data > "vertically" in rows instead of "horizontally" in columns. You would > need a "label" column to indicate what type of data the row contains. > It's more work on the front end, but a lot more flexible. It's

Re: Speedup of database changes

2006-07-11 Thread Brent Baisley
h if you are not using indexes. - Original Message - From: "Stefan Hornburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:51 AM Subject: Re: Speedup of database changes Brent Baisley wrote: Changes to the database structure should be few a far between. I

Re: Speedup of database changes

2006-07-11 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Brent Baisley wrote: Changes to the database structure should be few a far between. If you are finding you need to change the structure regularly, you should probably look at a redesign. This customer regularly request new things, so I cannot avoid changes to the database structure. MyISAM

Re: Speedup of database changes

2006-07-11 Thread Brent Baisley
Changes to the database structure should be few a far between. If you are finding you need to change the structure regularly, you should probably look at a redesign. MyISAM locks the table when an insert/delete is occurring, during which time other requests are queue up. You can switch it to In