Thanks alottttt roger.

Right now i m going through the indexes and Full text search stuff. I'll
surely let u know any improvement in the performance after i m done.

Binay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 5:49 PM
Subject: RE: Quick ones to speed up acces!


> MySQL does not use an index when you do "%blah%".  It would use the index
> for "blah%" however. See the following reference.
>
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/MySQL_indexes.html
>
> I would suggest you alter your tables to use a FullText Search.
>
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Fulltext_Search.html
>
> Roger
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Binay Agarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 7:53 PM
> > To: Roger Davis; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Quick ones to speed up acces!
> >
> >
> > Thanks Roger for quick response.
> >
> > Herebelow the structure of my table and query.
> >
> > CREATE TABLE npg_search (
> >    sno int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
> >    fileid varchar(255) NOT NULL,
> >    caption text,
> >    headline varchar(255),
> >    specialins varchar(255),
> >    keywords varchar(255) NOT NULL,
> >    cat varchar(50) NOT NULL,
> >    byline varchar(255),
> >    credit varchar(255),
> >    source varchar(255),
> >    date date,
> >    city varchar(100),
> >    state varchar(100),
> >    country varchar(100) NOT NULL,
> >    orgtransref varchar(100),
> >    copyright varchar(255),
> >    extratxt text,
> >    prints tinyint(4),
> >    extrastr varchar(255),
> >    bylinetitle varchar(255),
> >    addedon timestamp(14),
> >    PRIMARY KEY (sno),
> >    INDEX (fileid, keywords, cat, country));
> >
> > As shown columns fileid,keywords,cat and country are indexed.
> >
> > Query is:
> >
> > Select * from table where keywords like '%blah%' or caption like
'%blah%'
> > or headline like '%blah%'  or cat like '%blah%'
> >
> > Please help me out.
> >
> > Binay
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roger Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:57 PM
> > Subject: RE: Quick ones to speed up acces!
> >
> >
> > > It's called indexing and your queries should return in under 1
> > sec unless
> > > you are pulling all your records and all your data.  Show us
> > your Queries
> > > and you table structure and I am sure we can help.
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Binay Agarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 7:08 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Quick ones to speed up acces!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi everybody!
> > > >
> > > > I am querying from a table containing more than 40,000 records.
> > > > Earlier when the records were 10,000 it was taking 9 sec and now
> > > > after 1 year and 40,000 records its taking 30 sec. Code is the same.
> > > >
> > > > I am pretty sure that it has something to do with database only.
> > > > No body can think of spending 30 secs for retrieving values from
> > > > tables unless it's very huge in the sense of millions of records.
> > > >
> > > > I don know whether I have to modify my database or do some sort
> > > > of restructuring or reindexing so as to make it fast enough.
> > > >
> > > > Is there some methods or optmization which can be applied to this
> > > > database which hasn't been touched since design to enhance the
spped.
> > > >
> > > > If there are some quick ones but valued alottttttt please let me
know.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > Binay
> > > >
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