Using INTEGER instead of VARCHAR/DATE - is this a way to faster access?

2014-10-29 Thread Zbigniew
I'm going to establish a large database (ISAM) of simple structure, say the table with only 3 columns: - VARCHAR(80) - VARCHAR(40) - DATE The number of rows can be quite large, about hundred million or so. The first column, containing actual information, will contain unique values, unlike the two

Re: Using INTEGER instead of VARCHAR/DATE - is this a way to faster access?

2014-11-02 Thread Zbigniew
2014-10-31 5:29 GMT+01:00, Jan Steinman : > What about using ENUMs? They have nearly the performance of INTEGERs, but > you don't have to maintain a string mapping in your programming logic. So you guys (Jan and "hsv") suggest, that switching from DATE to "more numeric" data type may not be neces

Re: Using INTEGER instead of VARCHAR/DATE - is this a way to faster access?

2014-11-06 Thread Zbigniew
2014-11-06 21:49 GMT+01:00, Roberta Jaskólski : > Ugh--I missed the discussion shift from the DATEs to the VARCHAR labels ... > and now I wholeheartedly agree with you. > > As for the DATEs, I yet suspect that for performance maybe TIMESTAMP is > slightly better than DATE. Well what I'm interest

mysql binlogs and their expiry times

2008-10-08 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
-server-5.0.67 on FreeBSD 7.0-Release machine. Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mysql binlogs and their expiry times

2008-10-08 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
ot;) Yes, it was referring to the correct location so seems like a bug of some sort. > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/206576 I found a mention here about a cronjob which I implemented and I am happy with it. Thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http:/

Re: mysql binlogs and their expiry times

2008-10-08 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
id give it a try and all is fine with the index file. So this is not the problem. Thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please help with syntax !!!

2001-07-25 Thread Zbigniew Szczesny
Hello ! This is a syntax taken from MS Access: SELECT messages.message_id, messages_1.message_id FROM messages AS messages_1 INNER JOIN (messages INNER JOIN connections ON messages.message_id = connections.parent) ON messages_1.message_id = connections.child ORDER BY messages.message_id, messag

How to know which row was affected with a querry ???

2001-07-30 Thread Zbigniew Szczesny
Hello ! I have a following problem while scripting MySQL with PHP4: Imagine the user may add a record to a table. How can I know precisely what was the number (auto increment primary key) given by MySQL to this new inserted row ??? You may presume there are many simultaneus users adding rows,