The result display is bad (at least on at email). Here is a snapshot: http://afan.net/bhw/snapshot1.png -afan On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 19:39 -0500, Afan Pasalic wrote: > Hm. Have no idea what does it means: > > table > type > possible_keys > key > key_len > ref > rows > Extra > p > ALL > NULL > NULL > NULL > NULL > 1268 > Using > where; > Using > temporary; Using filesort > chp > index > NULL > PRIMARY > 8 > NULL > 1741 > Using > index > c > eq_ref > PRIMARY > PRIMARY > 4 > chp.cat_id > 1 > > pr > ALL > NULL > NULL > NULL > NULL > 10231 > > > > -afan > > > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:53 +1100, Chris wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Grab that query and run it through mysql with 'explain', so: > > > > explain SELECT p.prod_id, p.prod_name, p.prod_no, chp.cat_id, > > c.cat_name, c.cat_parent, pr.price > > FROM products as p > > LEFT JOIN categories_has_products as chp ON chp.prod_id = p.prod_id > > LEFT JOIN categories as c ON chp.cat_id = c.cat_id > > LEFT JOIN prices as pr ON pr.prod_id = p.prod_id > > WHERE prod_featured = '1' > > ORDER BY RAND(), pr.price ASC > > LIMIT 6 > > > > That will show you whether you are using the database indexes or not. > > > > If you can't work it out then post the explain output. > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php