5000 records is chump-change. select * from products where product_name is not null and product name != '' order by product_id On a 5000-record set, this should be screaming fast even with no index UNLESS your server is already drastically overloaded. On Thu, December 13, 2007 9:14 am, tedd wrote: > At 12:20 PM +0100 12/13/07, Zoltán Németh wrote: >>2007. 12. 12, szerda keltezéssel 20.13-kor tedd ezt írta: >> > I would like to create a temporary table to perform searches. >>> >>> From my main table, I need to exclude records that have certain >>> fields that are null or empty; and then sort the final result. >> >>why do you need a temp table for that? >>select * from blah where not isnull(checkfield) and checkfield <> '' >>order by someotherfield > > Zoltán: > > Ok, here's the problem. > > I have a table with over 5000 records. > > There is no index (not my dB) and the records are not complete. > > There is a numeric product_id field, but in the dB this is not in > sequence. > > Some records have a product_id, but no product_name. > > I need to travel the dB showing each item in > order (product _id) and excluding those products > that have no product_name. > > That sounds simple enough, but currently for each > step the entire table gets sorted (unless I'm > doing it wrong). > > I was thinking that I could: > > 1. Create a temporary table. > 2. Sort the table once. > 3. Remove the records that have no product_name > 4. And then just travel the temporary table for the duration of the > script. > 5. Drop the table when done with it. > > Now, what's wrong with my thinking? > > Cheers, > > tedd > > > > > > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
