Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-24 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:07:57PM -0600, Matt W wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > - Original Message - > From: "Jeremy Zawodny" > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:20 PM > Subject: Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH > > > > On Fri, Dec 19

Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-23 Thread Matt W
ng on very well. :-) More below... - Original Message - From: "Mark Hawkes" Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH > Hi Matt, > > Thanks very much for your thoughts and advice. I was going to ignore using >

Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-23 Thread Matt W
Hi Jeremy, - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Zawodny" Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:40:17PM -0600, Matt W wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > > I'll tell you what I kno

Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-22 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:40:17PM -0600, Matt W wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I'll tell you what I know. :-) > > First, AVG_ROW_LENGTH is only needed for dynamic row-length tables (it's > ignored with fixed-length rows) -- more specifically, those with > TEXT/BLOB columns. And VARCHAR/VARBINARY. Jerem

Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-19 Thread Matt W
Hi Mark, I'll tell you what I know. :-) First, AVG_ROW_LENGTH is only needed for dynamic row-length tables (it's ignored with fixed-length rows) -- more specifically, those with TEXT/BLOB columns. Otherwise, if MAX_ROWS is used, MySQL will assume that each TEXT/BLOB column will be filled complet