> I am the dba for a track and field results web site, when people look for
> results they are most likely going to want results from a more recent meet
> (rather than older meets).
>
> there is a table result and a table meet where a column in result is
> "meet_hnd." (there maybe hundreds of results per meet) so I have indexed
> the result table on meet_hnd. This sped things up dramatically. Now, the
> I see it, though we are indexed on meet_hnd, when searching for results
> mysql is starting at the first meet_hnd though we are most likely wanting
> to retrieve the last meet_hnd. If this were indexed in reverse order than
> the first meet_hnd would most likely be the one we are looking for.
Have you tried an ORDER BY meet_hnd DESC on your query?
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