RE: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
Yeah, I have a similar box like yours. I copied the first column to a new table with an index. I ran select distinct and the query took 6 seconds to execute. This must have to do with the record length, because when I indexed the origional table's first column the query was 1 minute 30 seconds to

RE: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
no Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column Since your primary key is used, maybe you should consider adding an index on PostedZpdi field only. You may also check 'key_buffer_size' value (show variables like 'key%'). Since your

RE: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
> > From: Haydies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column > > > Its a compound key, they are always slow. I would imagin you will need to > seriously rede

Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Joseph Bueno
Since your primary key is used, maybe you should consider adding an index on PostedZpdi field only. You may also check 'key_buffer_size' value (show variables like 'key%'). Since your primary key is more than 200 MB big, allocating a "big" key buffer (> 256MB) may help. Joseph Bueno Nathan Cassano

RE: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
mysql> explain select distinct AccountLevelId from PostedZpdi; ++---+---+-+-+--+-+- + | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows| Extra | ++---+---+-+--

Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Haydies
ng. I'm not to happy when I have 2 fields in the primary key - Original Message - From: "Nathan Cassano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: Select distinct speed on an indexed column : : Hey e

Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Joseph Bueno
Nathan Cassano wrote: Hey everyone, I have a question about the speed of selecting distinct values on an indexed column. I have a table with a five column primary key and 3,215,540 records. I want to select all of the distinct values of the first column in the primary key. This column only

Select distinct speed on an indexed column

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Cassano
Hey everyone, I have a question about the speed of selecting distinct values on an indexed column. I have a table with a five column primary key and 3,215,540 records. I want to select all of the distinct values of the first column in the primary key. This column only has 549 distinct valu