MySQL sorts Norwegian/Scandinavian Characters wrong

2003-10-01 Thread Håkon Nilsen \(Exinet AS\)
Hi, When I try to sort the alphabet, the three characters only used for the norwegian language, Æ, Ø and Å, are sorted wrong. They should be sorted in the order ÆØÅ, but they're sorted ÅÆØ. I read some place that I could change the character-set to danish, and that that would solve the issue (as

Re: Why are my sorts so slow?

2003-06-16 Thread Dr. Frank Ullrich
Bruce, Bruce Leidl schrieb: > > I'm having a problem with some very slow queries that spend a very long > time in the 'Sorting result' state and I'm wondering how sorts are > implemented in mysql and what I can do to optimize these types of queries. > &g

RE: Why are my sorts so slow?

2003-06-13 Thread David Brodbeck
doing the sort and throwing away all but the last 50. I don't know if that was clear or not, but what I'm trying to say is, if you can limit the amount of data that matches the WHERE that you're going to be throwing out anyway, do it. :) > -Original Message- > From:

Re: Why are my sorts so slow?

2003-06-13 Thread Brent Baisley
Sorts don't use indexes, for the most part, only the search part does. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that, I think I recall reading it in SQL for Smarties. The index is on the entire database, not on the subset that you have selected. If you know that your query is going to retu

Why are my sorts so slow?

2003-06-13 Thread Bruce Leidl
I'm having a problem with some very slow queries that spend a very long time in the 'Sorting result' state and I'm wondering how sorts are implemented in mysql and what I can do to optimize these types of queries. The query looks something like this: SELECT col1,col2,co

Re: Sorts

2002-04-29 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
x27;t think there is a easy way. > Here are some of the variables SHOW STATUS returns > > Questions 6623371 > Sort_merge_passes 357 > Sort_range 29213 > Sort_rows 11271509 > Sort_scan 231944 > > I want to try and calculate the percentage of sorts that require

Sorts

2002-04-29 Thread webmaster
sorts that required more than one pass!! Any help would be welcome. Thanks Peter Kelly - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To