[GENERAL] sql92

2000-04-02 Thread Jeff MacDonald
quick question SQL-92 - is this an ansi standard ? Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT speed with LIKE

2000-04-02 Thread Frank Bax
At 01:33 PM 4/01/00 -0500, you wrote: >The table has a field called 'stname char(17)' which is indexed. The >query is "SELECT * FROM data WHERE stname LIKE 'MAIN%'". I'm running on >Redhat 6.1, 128MB ram, 40GB, P350. The actual index file is 4 MB. I haven't tried it, but didn't someone mention a

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT speed with LIKE

2000-04-02 Thread brew
> I've got a real problem with the speed of a select. Some folk might > "SELECT * FROM data WHERE stname LIKE 'MAIN%'" I once had a speed problem on mSQL and found if I only selected the columns I needed, rather than use a wildcard to get them all, it ran much faster. Of course, this is a diff