> -----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 _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
