RE: Query optimizer decision to use index depends on data?

2003-09-11 Thread Tongprasith, Anan
Never mind. New MySQL has "force index" option. Thanks for your help Brent. Anan T. -Original Message----- From: Tongprasith, Anan Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:32 PM To: Brent Baisley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Query optimizer decision to use index depends on data?

RE: Query optimizer decision to use index depends on data?

2003-09-11 Thread Tongprasith, Anan
idn't help. Anan T. -Original Message- From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:18 PM To: Tongprasith, Anan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Query optimizer decision to use index depends on data? I don't think so. Based on what I'v

Query optimizer decision to use index depends on data?

2003-09-11 Thread Tongprasith, Anan
I have two tables which are exactly the same but have different set of data on them. I wrote a query and used EXPLAIN to see how it would run on each table. It turn out that the same query will use index on one table but not the other. So I delete all data on the "bad" table (the one that won't u