Hello Artur, Sunday, February 28, 2010, 12:44:00 AM, you wrote:
AR> "Select count(id) from table where text!='' or text!=NULL" is the same, AR> right? Using text!='' obviously needs to load the text column. I just tried it nevertheless and aborted after 5 min (brute force reread of the whole file would be by the way much much faster then the 5min for a 10 GB file). AR> As i see you want to count all rows, right? I don't know if it is faster AR> to only count one column instead of *, but I using it the one-column-count AR> way. Perhaps this helps too? I never thought about this and always considered it syntax-sugar for the count function. And it seems i'm right, no change either. So it's maybe time to say byebye to SQLite and move on to a real database system. -- Best regards, Lothar Scholz mailto:sch...@scriptolutions.com _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users