> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: maandag 6 mei 2002 5:53
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: RE: Brin-l Statistics Page

> Jeroen, what format do you have the messages in right now?  As I think
> you know, I've scraped them off the Yahoo archives, but if you have the
> complete e-mails, with headers and such, I could do a much better job.

I have them as complete e-mails in Eudora (.mbx format).


> FYI, my old database had 10 million records, of which Brin-L was just a
> little bit.  The new one now has 6 million.  No real performance issues
> yet, though some things have been difficult to optimize.  Efficiently
> threading, calculating each person's interval between posts and that
> sort of thing have been the more challenging ones.

For clarity: was that a MS Access database or something else?


> I'm using MySQL -- there's really no need for Oracle.  You can even use
> Access as a front end to MySQL.  I've done that, and the same with
> Excel.  They're handy for trying out queries and examining the results
> list carefully.

I have zero experience with MySQL. How difficult is it to learn?



Jeroen

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