On 1/27/2011 9:30 AM, Shaun Thomas wrote:
I'm not sure about orders of magnitude on the storage/index side, but my tests gave us a 10% boost if just the keys are switched over to INT or BIGINT.
Well, it depends on what you're doing. Searching by an integer vs. searching by a text string will probably not make much of a difference. However, if you are calculating sums or averages, there will be a huge difference.
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