Hey guys.
First off, thanks to all who have helped me in the recent weeks. We're
in crunch on my project and my rather complicated server, combined with
my lack of DB experience, has given me plenty of problems to deal with.
My core users table has a user defined by a string which is their
Quoth Ian Hardingham i...@omroth.com, on 2011-02-01 15:10:43 +:
[paragraphs reordered]
As there are hundreds of queries around my server codebase I would
prefer not to have to change every single one to use a numeric id for a
user rather than a string - but maybe this is the only real way
On 2/1/2011 10:10 AM, Ian Hardingham wrote:
My core users table has a user defined by a string which is their name.
This string is used to address many other tables relating to users. Not
only is the primary key a string (which I understand is bad enough), but
I also have to use LIKE rather
Hi Igor, thankyou.
If I wish to make this modification now, what steps would I need to
take? And in your opinion what % of the optimisation of doing it with
integers would this provide?
Thanks,
Ian
On 01/02/2011 16:19, Igor Tandetnik wrote:
On 2/1/2011 10:10 AM, Ian Hardingham wrote:
My
On 2/1/2011 11:30 AM, Ian Hardingham wrote:
If I wish to make this modification now, what steps would I need to
take?
Export data from the table, drop table, recreate table with the new
schema, import data back. Update all queries from LIKE to =.
And in your opinion what % of the
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Ian Hardingham wrote:
Hi Igor, thankyou.
If I wish to make this modification now, what steps would I need to
take? And in your opinion what % of the optimisation of doing it with
integers would this provide?
ALTER TABLE MyTable RENAME TO
Many thanks Puneet and Igor - I will do those things.
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