Re: denormalization/E-T-L help

2005-03-24 Thread SGreen
You are on the right track. Don't forget to use the EXPLAIN command to help you tune in your indexes. One other thing that may help is to try making extracts of some of your tables as temp tables and using them in the final JOIN query that pulls it all together. For instance, you could make a t

Re: denormalization/E-T-L help

2005-03-24 Thread Mathew Ray
Hi Shawn, I think I may have found a solution, but the query takes quite a while to run...here is what I have now paraphrased: SELECT vd.id AS id, vd.session AS session, vl.value AS content, vd2.varvalue AS browser, vl3.value AS bandwidth FROM vardata AS vd LEFT OUTER JOI

Re: denormalization/E-T-L help

2005-03-24 Thread SGreen
Mathew Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/24/2005 10:42:51 AM: > Been searching for a while and can't seem to come up with any good > answers to this - I have a normalized structure of about 5 tables that I > need to denormalize into one big representation of the entire structure. > Anyone

denormalization/E-T-L help

2005-03-24 Thread Mathew Ray
Been searching for a while and can't seem to come up with any good answers to this - I have a normalized structure of about 5 tables that I need to denormalize into one big representation of the entire structure. Anyone know of a good tool or resource to 'flatten' my tables easily? I've got a