Re: width and height performance

2001-11-17 Thread Carl Troein
florian writes: > i have to store a dataset of 20 elements. the data is a int(1). > i would have about 800 000 datasets. now the question is what performs better > with mysql? > > is it better to have 800 000 rows with 21 columns or 160 000 000 rows > with 3 columns? That's 16M rows, not 160

Re: width and height performance

2001-11-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 17), florian said: > i have to store a dataset of 20 elements. the data is a int(1). i > would have about 800 000 datasets. now the question is what performs > better with mysql? > > one table like this: or: > > mytable mytable > -

width and height performance

2001-11-17 Thread florian
hi! i have to store a dataset of 20 elements. the data is a int(1). i would have about 800 000 datasets. now the question is what performs better with mysql? one table like this: mytable -- someId element1 int(1) element2 int(1) element3 int(1) element4 int(1) ... element20 --