On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:36, Redhat wrote: > I am getting a weird error on one of my servers that says something > about "query requires full tablescan". I was not getting this error > until today that I noticed. I Googled for a minute and saw where a ton > of other sites had the same problem but no "reason" why. I did find one > board that said to turn off "mysql.trace_mode" in the php.ini file. I > did this and it fixed the problem. Is there something different that I > should be doing when I write code? Have I just "band aided" the problem > or solved the problem? > thanks, > Doug You are possibly using a query without indexes. Try running EXPLAIN on your query, and have a look at this page from the mysql site which tells more about table scans. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/How_to_avoid_table_scan.html Cheers -- David Robley Help! I'm lost somewhere in the Generation Gap. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
