Re: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing

2003-10-04 Thread Matt W
: Re: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:23:24PM -0400, Ware Adams wrote: Peer Reiser wrote: Next week I will have access to a new PomerMac G5 with Dual 2GHZ processors, and i want to do some indexing. Does anyone know

Newbye speed question

2003-10-03 Thread Peer Reiser
HI I am having a MYISAM database with 27 million rows and 19 fields all char between 15 and 1 characters long. yesterday i did a alter table mytablename add column (version char(2)); By now (18 hours later) it has not finished yet? Is there a way to somehow predict the time needed for this? Or

Re: Newbye speed question

2003-10-03 Thread Wang Feng
18hrs??? So, the database has been LOCKED for 18hrs - Original Message - From: Peer Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: Newbye speed question HI I am having a MYISAM database with 27 million rows and 19 fields all

Re: Newbye speed question

2003-10-03 Thread Peer Reiser
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: Newbye speed question HI I am having a MYISAM database with 27 million rows and 19 fields all char between 15 and 1 characters long. yesterday i did a alter table mytablename add column (version char(2)); By now (18 hours later) it has

Re: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing

2003-10-03 Thread Peer Reiser
Next week I will have access to a new PomerMac G5 with Dual 2GHZ processors, and i want to do some indexing. Does anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of dual processors if the only process running is the indexing process?? Is disk I/O more important ? The bad temper of my boss seems to

RE: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing

2003-10-03 Thread Andy Eastham
PROTECTED] Sent: 03 October 2003 10:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing Next week I will have access to a new PomerMac G5 with Dual 2GHZ processors, and i want to do some indexing. Does anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of dual

Re: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing

2003-10-03 Thread Ware Adams
Peer Reiser wrote: Next week I will have access to a new PomerMac G5 with Dual 2GHZ processors, and i want to do some indexing. Does anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of dual processors if the only process running is the indexing process?? No, it won't directly. However, other processes

RE: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing

2003-10-03 Thread Ware Adams
Andy Eastham wrote: How big are the table and index files? Can your OS handle files bigger than 2/4Gb? Yes, OS X can deal with files larger than 4 GB. --Ware -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL

Re: Newbye speed question

2003-10-03 Thread Michael Brunson
6:57 PM | Subject: Newbye speed question | | | HI | | I am having a MYISAM database with 27 million rows and 19 fields all | char between 15 and 1 characters long. | | yesterday i did a | alter table mytablename add column (version char(2)); | By now (18 hours later) it has not finished

Re: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing

2003-10-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:23:24PM -0400, Ware Adams wrote: Peer Reiser wrote: Next week I will have access to a new PomerMac G5 with Dual 2GHZ processors, and i want to do some indexing. Does anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of dual processors if the only process running is the

Re: Newbye speed question - which setup to use for indexing

2003-10-03 Thread Ware Adams
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:23:24PM -0400, Ware Adams wrote: Peer Reiser wrote: Next week I will have access to a new PomerMac G5 with Dual 2GHZ processors, and i want to do some indexing. Does anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of dual processors if the only process

Re: Speed question.

2002-03-20 Thread BD
At 01:17 AM 3/20/2002, you wrote: An Oracle DB programmer reviewed a query that I wrote and told me that putting constants at the beginning of the query would make it slower. I thought I'd go to the experts on MySQL and be told the truth one way of the other. Example query: SELECT

RE: Speed question.

2002-03-20 Thread Tony
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Speed question. At 01:17 AM 3/20/2002, you wrote: An Oracle DB programmer reviewed a query that I wrote and told me that putting constants at the beginning of the query would make it slower

Speed question.

2002-03-19 Thread zxcv
An Oracle DB programmer reviewed a query that I wrote and told me that putting constants at the beginning of the query would make it slower. I thought I'd go to the experts on MySQL and be told the truth one way of the other. Example query: SELECT TABLE1.COL, TABLE2.COL FROM

Re: Speed question.

2002-03-19 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:17:58AM -0700, zxcv wrote: An Oracle DB programmer reviewed a query that I wrote and told me that putting constants at the beginning of the query would make it slower. I thought I'd go to the experts on MySQL and be told the truth one way of the other. Perhaps

Re: Speed question

2001-05-17 Thread Carl Schrader
Ok, thanks for the input. I'll work on optimizing the code and look at the indexes. ryc wrote: Changing to C++ is not likely to give you a noticable speed difference because your bottleneck is not the code but the queries. With proper database design you should be able to acheive those

Speed question

2001-05-16 Thread Carl Schrader
I am searching to speed up an operation I have, which works - it just takes minutes to finish. The current script is written in pike (a C like scripting language). I believe that most of the overhead is the multiple queries. Would using C++ be significantly faster? (I'd have to learn some C

Re: Speed question

2001-05-16 Thread Carl Schrader
- Original Message - From: Carl Schrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:08 AM Subject: Speed question I am searching to speed up an operation I have, which works - it just takes minutes to finish. The current script is written in pike (a C

Re: Speed question

2001-05-16 Thread Enrique Vizcarra
table was indexed MySql speed up. I remember, once time before I had slows queries from MySql (too slow) until I re-install Windows in my work station computer. maybe some systems files was damaged. From: Carl Schrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Speed question Date

Re: Speed question

2001-05-16 Thread Carl Schrader
. From: Carl Schrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Speed question Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:08:15 -0700 I am searching to speed up an operation I have, which works - it just takes minutes to finish. The current script is written in pike (a C like scripting language). I

Re: Speed question

2001-05-16 Thread ryc
Changing to C++ is not likely to give you a noticable speed difference because your bottleneck is not the code but the queries. With proper database design you should be able to acheive those results with one query, and it should be fast if given the right indexes. ryan I am searching to