Jason Pruim wrote:
> Given the following 2 queries:
>
> "SELECT DISTINCT areacode FROM main WHERE state = '{$query_exploded[0]}'";
>
> "SELECT DISTINCT areacode FROM main";
>
> The second displays ALOT faster.... Like by minutes... the first one is
> what I really want though.... Currently working with a dataset of 89
> million records, will be expanding that to many many more times that... To
> the tune of possibly a couple billion records...
>
> Any ideas? :)
>
>
> Jason Pruim
> lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Absolutely the first thing I would do is an EXPLAIN on the slow query, and
work from the results of that. I'd hazard a guess that there might be
indexing problems.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/using-explain.html
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