Re: arrangement of fields in a table

2003-06-09 Thread Nils Valentin
Hi Mohitaba, Sounds to me that it makes sense to put the important 8 fields at least in a separate table to speed up any SELECT requests. You may even consider putting a copy of the small table containing only the 8 fields into the memory as a heap table ( if they are not containing any blobs

Re: arrangement of fields in a table

2003-06-09 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:40:47PM -0400, Mojtaba Faridzad wrote: > Hi, > > I need to define for example 100 fields in a table. 8 of them are more > important and many queries just need these fields. Should I define them > before the other fields in the table or it doesn't matter? Is accessing the

arrangement of fields in a table

2003-06-09 Thread Mojtaba Faridzad
Hi, I need to define for example 100 fields in a table. 8 of them are more important and many queries just need these fields. Should I define them before the other fields in the table or it doesn't matter? Is accessing the the beginning fields faster than the other fields? thanks -- MySQL Gene