it was a limitation of the DBTOOLS table manager... I am indexing right now using alter table...
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 1:08 PM To: Mary Stickney Cc: Jocelyn Fournier; Mark Matthews; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MySQL vs. Oracle (not speed) In the last episode (Aug 16), Mary Stickney said: > looks to me like I can only make indexes on fields that are not > null... this one is not , not null Indexing of NULL columns went into Mysql 3.23.2 (Dec 16, 2000). With tables this large, you might also want to raise some of the cache parameters in my.cnf . http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/H/SHOW_VARIABLES.html -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
