centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <> scribbled on Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:57 PM:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Sparks
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:37 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: OT: MySQL Help
>>
>> Thomas E Dukes wrote:
>>> I ran the following against a table:
>>>
>>> ALTER TABLE `products` ADD INDEX `idx_products_model` (
>>> `products_model` );
>>>
>>>
>>> Can this index be removed? If so, how?
>>>
>>
>> Maybe
>> DROP INDEX `idx_products_model`
>> or
>> ALTER TABLE `products` DROP INDEX `idx_products_model`
>
> Thanks for the help. Wasn't sure if 'DROP' was what I needed
> to use. I'm not that MySQL savy. I was following a
> suggestion to speed up a process.
> The problems I'm having aren't in the same table and I was
> was just trying to cover any changes since the problems began.
>
> I ran mysqlcheck on the database and got an OK on all tables.
> Must be something else.
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration
Are you running mysql-4.x? If so, you might consider using the caching
features of 4.x+ It has helped some of my mysql intensive sites quite a
bit.
Mike
