Frank Bax wrote:
I have a table with only 434 rows in it. Two important columns are
"itemid" and "locn". Each item must be in one of seven locations. We
need to create a "combo" by selecting one item from each of seven
locations; then determine which "combo" is the "best" according to our
analysis (see below).
A subselect for items in a location looks something like:
(select * from suit_item where locn='Head' AND username='Walter' ORDER
BY itemid LIMIT 10) as Head
One subselect for each location, cross join them all and the query
generates 10,000,000 combinations! Without the "LIMIT 10", there are
78 * 37 * 91 * 81 * 99 * 47 * 1 = 98,981,901,018 results returned for
username='Walter' (the only user at the moment). The large volume is
causing a problem for my systems! The "ORDER BY itemid" was added only
so that same 10 items were processed on different computer systems I
tested this query on. Only one item for 7th locn in the database at the
moment.
Frank - it might just be me, but I've read your email twice and despite
all the information I still don't have any idea what you are trying to do.
Are you saying that you WANT to generate a cross-join, score the
millions of results and then pick the best 10? It's doing what you want,
but you'd like it to be faster.
Or are you saying that you'd like to avoid the explosion in rows altogether?
In either case - I don't suppose you could provide a real example of the
query, so we can see exactly what you're trying to do.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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