Re: [GENERAL] Database design wisdom needed

2007-06-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:46:42PM +0800, Erick Papadakis wrote: > >GAME_COUNTS Table (also ~5 million rows of course) >--- >GAME_ID >VIEWS_COUNT >PLAYED_COUNT >PLAYED_COUNT_UNIQUE This is a poor normalisation. While views_c

Re: [GENERAL] Database design wisdom needed

2007-06-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/05/07 00:46, Erick Papadakis wrote: Hi Sorry for this somewhat long email but I think it is relevant to most people who run online databases. I am having trouble optimizing UPDATE queries on a certain semi-large table that is only growing larger. I've come across some very interesting thou