Re: indexes and size

2007-03-20 Thread Rolando Edwards
You need do SHOW INDEXES FROM ; You will see a column called Cardinlaity (another word for a unique count). This tells you how many distinct values exists at the given Seq_in_index for the index. If the Cardinality of an index is low in relation to the number of rows in the table, then MySQL m

Re: indexes and size

2007-03-20 Thread Christophe Gregoir
Hiep Nguyen wrote: i believe "date" is a reserved word for mysql. don't use reserved word for the column name. it's confused. Using reserved words may be confusing, but it is fine as long as you put them between backticks, as I'm sure the OP is aware of. On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Peter wrot

Re: indexes and size

2007-03-20 Thread Hiep Nguyen
i believe "date" is a reserved word for mysql. don't use reserved word for the column name. it's confused. On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Peter wrote: Hello, I have a a large a table which a field called date, type date. When I select a smaller range e.g 3 months system uses the index 'date'. That