Or even make .txt file with the cron and just include that txt file in
your php
<?
include_once('figures.txt');
?>
Then in backgrond with perl(php) and cron you will udate that .txt file :-)
So it will be 1 quesry per 15 minutes :-)
Peter
SGreen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Brian Dunning <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/06/2005 04:43:11 PM:
I am cross-posting this to the PHP and the MySQL lists because I'm
not sure in which technology my solution will lie.
I have a pretty busy PHP/MySQL site that executes the following query
a lot:
select count(*) as `count` from terms;
My MySQL account was disabled by my ISP because this query was
causing resource issues, so I need to find a different way to know
the record count in that table. A few records are added once every 5
minutes by a cron job. The record count is constant the rest of the
time. No records are ever deleted.
Is it possible to create some kind of server-side variable, in which
the cron job could store the record count, which would be accessible
to all scripts, and would stay the same until it gets reset? Or is
there a less-intense MySQL query I should be using instead?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
You could create a new table that you populate once with SELECT COUNT(*)
then update that table every time your CRON job runs. That way you don't
have to keep performing the COUNT() query when you could look up the value
from a table.
Shawn Green
Database Administrator
Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine
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Peter
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