RE: [PHP] Help - need to quickly optimize a record count!

2005-07-10 Thread Warren Vail
; From: Burhan Khalid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:21 AM > To: Brian Dunning > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: [PHP] Help - need to quickly optimize a record count! > > > Brian Dunning wrote: > > I am cross-post

Re: [PHP] Help - need to quickly optimize a record count!

2005-07-10 Thread Burhan Khalid
Brian Dunning wrote: I am cross-posting this to the PHP and the MySQL lists because I'm not sure in which technology my solution will lie. I have a pretty busy PHP/MySQL site that executes the following query a lot: select count(*) as `count` from terms; My MySQL account was disabled by m

Re: [PHP] Help - need to quickly optimize a record count!

2005-07-06 Thread Brian Dunning
Hi Richard - like I said, whatever the merits of the situation, that's the query that the ISP is not permitting. As soon as I change that, they'll reactivate the account. The ISP is PowWeb if anyone else wants to take it up with them; I've already talked myself red in the face. On Jul 6,

Re: [PHP] Help - need to quickly optimize a record count!

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 6, 2005 1:43 pm, Brian Dunning said: > I am cross-posting this to the PHP and the MySQL lists because I'm > not sure in which technology my solution will lie. > > I have a pretty busy PHP/MySQL site that executes the following query > a lot: Define "a lot" Every page hit? > select c

Re: [PHP] Help - need to quickly optimize a record count!

2005-07-06 Thread Brian Dunning
It is indexed, and it's fast, but nevertheless my ISP won't allow it any longer. At least not as often as I need it. On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: If you have an index on the terms table that query should return almost instantly... Anyway, I'd start there first...

[PHP] Help - need to quickly optimize a record count!

2005-07-06 Thread Brian Dunning
I am cross-posting this to the PHP and the MySQL lists because I'm not sure in which technology my solution will lie. I have a pretty busy PHP/MySQL site that executes the following query a lot: select count(*) as `count` from terms; My MySQL account was disabled by my ISP because this que