Norris, Saturday, October 12, 2002, 2:11:36 AM, you wrote: NJ> I have the following query:
NJ> select phones.*, ops.plid, ops.box, ops.mac NJ> from phones, ops where NJ> (ops.box = 'Mcds') or (ops.box = 'Mn3300') and NJ> (phones.suffix1 = ops.phone) order by ops.mac NJ> When I change the order by to a field in the phones table - sorts just fine NJ> and produces results but in this case I am sorting by one of the fields in NJ> the other table (ops). NJ> massive bunch of disk activity and mysqladmin shows that the process is NJ> writing stuff to disk then sorting then producing the results. What is the output of EXPLAIN SELECT? -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
