Hi i am including table structure and other results to you CREATE TABLE Mobile_Tunes ( Tune_ID int(6) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, Tune_Name varchar(30) NOT NULL, Tune_Type varchar(10) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (Tune_ID), UNIQUE KEY Tune_Name (Tune_Name), INDEX Tune_Type (Tune_Type) )ENGINE=MyISAM; mysql> desc mobile_tunes; +-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Tune_ID | int(6) | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | Tune_Name | varchar(30) | | UNI | | | | Tune_Type | varchar(10) | | MUL | | | +-----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 3 rows in set (0.03 sec) mysql> explain select Tune_name, tune_type from mobile_tunes; +--------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------+ | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +--------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------+ | mobile_tunes | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 4 | | +--------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------+ 1 row in set (0.02 sec) mysql> select Tune_name, tune_type from mobile_tunes; +-----------+-----------+ | Tune_name | tune_type | +-----------+-----------+ | pakistani | midi | | pakistan2 | midi | | usa | midi | | uk | midi | +-----------+-----------+ 4 rows in set (0.01 sec) ISSUED WARNINGS **************************************** Warning: mysql_query(): Your query requires a full tablescan (table Mobile_Tunes, 4 rows affected). Use EXPLAIN to optimize your query. in D:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\Breez\mtunes_main.php on line 47 Warning: mysql_query(): Your query requires a full tablescan (table Mobile_Tunes, 4 rows affected). Use EXPLAIN to optimize your query. in D:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\Breez\mtunes_main.php on line 70 ************************************************************ this table will be populated with at least 60,000 records. these 4 records are just for testing purpose. so if you can tell me what to do to avoid this warning, then it will be great help for me. Bye Niel Archer <not@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This shows you have NO indexes on the table. Assuming that 'Tune_Name' > > contains unique entries for each row, I'd suggest you do the following > > as a minimum: > > > > ALTER TABLE Mobile_Tunes ADD PRIMARY KEY (Tune_Name); > > How's that going to help if he's getting all records from the table? Depends what you mean by help. Improve performance of the query, not at all, but that wasn't the original question. In a previous post he said he'd added indexes which his EXPLAIN output clearly shows is not the case. That is simply an example of how to add a PRIMARY KEY after creating the table. However, it will stop duplicate entries from being entered and prepare the way for when he's NOT selecting all rows, so is not entirely wasted. > Also there's no way a database is going to use an index if there are > only 4 rows in the table. True, but if it was only ever going to have 4 entries in it I doubt he'd be using a Db at all. I'm assuming this is just a sample. -- Niel Archer -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Asim Jamil - 0092 345 4025907, Pakistan --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.
