Re: where to store report info

2008-12-10 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "William Attwood" on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:16:57 MST: > Hmmm, if you want, you can do partitioning of that table, so it can > grow larger and respond faster. Is the partitioning like Oracle's extents (I think that's what it is called) where you can dynamically grow a database onto

Re: where to store report info

2008-12-10 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Kyle Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I almost sent this to udbug but felt it was more of a general question. > I have a database with lots of information in it, and find that I need to > run a report the is going to take up to several minutes to run. It's ok if

Re: where to store report info

2008-12-09 Thread William Attwood
Hmmm, if you want, you can do partitioning of that table, so it can grow larger and respond faster. The functionality is available in MySQl 5.1+. I would recommend normalizing the data a bit more; a single table for all clocking in and out, with a FK to a type of clock-in/out, and a FK to the tabl

Re: where to store report info

2008-12-09 Thread Kyle Waters
William Attwood wrote: Kyle-- You could upgrade the hardware and/or enhance the storage of the data through normalization, and RDBMS specific methods such as indexes. My main problem is that I have to subtract one line from an other, and then do different things with that data based off a

Re: where to store report info

2008-12-09 Thread William Attwood
Kyle-- You could upgrade the hardware and/or enhance the storage of the data through normalization, and RDBMS specific methods such as indexes. It is acceptable to store a completed report in another table. If the report doesn't need live data in the moment, storage of the report is accepta

where to store report info

2008-12-09 Thread Kyle Waters
I almost sent this to udbug but felt it was more of a general question. I have a database with lots of information in it, and find that I need to run a report the is going to take up to several minutes to run. It's ok if I only run this report once a day in the morning before everyone comes i