I have a table representing a logfile, with a timestamp for each entry. There
are currently about 90,000 entries. When I display the log, I normally want to
see the most recent entries first, so the default order is by timestamp
descending. This typically takes about 20-25 seconds. If I want to know the
number of entries as well, I seek to the last row of the results set, get the
row number and seek back to the beginning again:
res.last();
nrows = res.getRow(); // no. of rows in result
res.beforeFirst();
This adds about another 10 seconds.
The only thing I've come up with as a way of speeding things up is to create an
index for the timestamp:
CREATE INDEX log_index ON system_log (time DESC);
but this seems to make little or no difference to the timing.
Can anyone suggest how I can reorganise things so that I can view the log
without having to wait for upwards of 30 seconds at a time?
TIA,
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John English
