RE: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread Chris Fossenier
nothing over 20mill for records. Chris. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:47 PM To: Chris Fossenier Cc: 'Peter Zaitsev'; 'MySQL List' Subject: RE: Indexing Woes These files will be created in the /tm

RE: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread vpendleton
;<<<<<<<<<< On 2/11/04, 5:42:31 PM, Chris Fossenier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding RE: Indexing Woes: > None of my individual tables are larger than 12GB, however, I have no idea > if MySQL creates a separate TMP file for each indexing

RE: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread Chris Fossenier
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:13 PM To: Chris Fossenier Cc: 'Peter Zaitsev'; 'MySQL List' Subject: RE: Indexing Woes If I am reading your parameter correctly, MySQL will limit the size of the temporary file created to 30GB. If the file exce

RE: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread vpendleton
;>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 2/11/04, 4:54:21 PM, Chris Fossenier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding RE: Indexing Woes: > Can you provide a better explanation of these variables? I have yet to find >

RE: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread Chris Fossenier
al Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:50 PM To: Chris Fossenier Cc: 'Peter Zaitsev'; 'MySQL List' Subject: RE: Indexing Woes Performing your indexing in one batch will create a temp table only once as opposed t

RE: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread vpendleton
his to? > - my machine is dedicated to MySQL > Thanks. > Chris. > -Original Message- > From: Peter Zaitsev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:03 PM > To: Chris Fossenier > Cc: 'MySQL List' > Subject: Re: Indexing Woes &

RE: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread Chris Fossenier
27; Subject: Re: Indexing Woes On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 09:29, Chris Fossenier wrote: > Hello, > > I had a question about indexing a while back and everyone screamed > "normalize"!! > > Well...I've normalized much as I'm going to, and at most I have 3 > index

RE: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread Chris Fossenier
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:10 PM To: Chris Fossenier Cc: 'MySQL List' Subject: Re: Indexing Woes Yes a duplicate copy of the table is created and the Indexes are created on that new table, the original table is dropped and the new table is renamed.

Re: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread Peter Zaitsev
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 09:29, Chris Fossenier wrote: > Hello, > > I had a question about indexing a while back and everyone screamed > "normalize"!! > > Well...I've normalized much as I'm going to, and at most I have 3 indexes on > any one table. My database has 120 million records in it and the

Re: Indexing Woes

2004-02-11 Thread vpendleton
Yes a duplicate copy of the table is created and the Indexes are created on that new table, the original table is dropped and the new table is renamed. What type of data is being indexed? Are you attempting to index while the database is being actively used? What version of MySQL are you using?