Hello Thank you all for the answers.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Black, Michael (IS) <michael.bla...@ngc.com> wrote: > When you say "running on the fly" do you mean running from an sqlite3 command > prompt? I mean somebody will query it and will be waiting for the answer. > Or are you doing this in some other programming language? Perl > Why in the world would you use a database to do this? Probably I am not using a database for this, but for something else, and I want to add a feature to let users read some statistics. > > > Hello > > I am running on the fly a query to count the number of words starting > with one of the 26 letters. > > I am doing the usual SELECT COUNT(term) from dictionary WHERE normword > LIKE "a%" (for the 26 letters) > > normword is the term normalized without accents and the like > > > Is there any way to make this query faster? It is taking about 10 > second for 140K entries. > > One idea is to add a column named 'letter' and SELECT COUNT(letter) > from dictionary WHERE letter = 'a'. > But are there other solutions? > > Thanks > -- > Alberto Simões > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > -- Alberto Simões _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
