Question: table schema optimization

2007-09-11 Thread Hailiang Ji
Folks,

A help needed. My manager's pushed me to optimize the tables that I
created in distributed in several DBs. I have tried best to explain to him
that I have followed the strict formula design to do the Join, Search and
so on. However, the system performance is not good enough yet when our
system get thousands' users visiting in the same time.

Could anyone point me something so that I can tune the system performance?
I don't think my db tables have problems. I guess I should investigate on
the deployment, for example, cluster, load-balancing and so on? Our system
hs big traffic at daytime, usually at noon time or at evening.

Thanks in advance,


Hailiang Ji, Developer
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Re: What should be a simple query...

2007-09-11 Thread David Schneider-Joseph

Try this:

SELECT RMAs.rma_id FROM RMAs, rma_line_items
WHERE TO_DAYS(date_settled) = 733274
AND RMAs.rma_id = rma_line_items.rma_id
GROUP BY RMAs.rma_id HAVING COUNT(*)  1

On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Mike Mannakee wrote:

I have two tables, one called RMAs and the other called  
rma_line_items.  The

first one has the general details of the RMA (Return Merchandise
Authorization) , the second holds the details of each item being  
returned.


What I want is a listing of the RMA ids (which are unique in the  
RMAs table)

which have more than one line item in the corresponding table.  So I'm
using:

SELECT * FROM RMAs, rma_line_items
WHERE TO_DAYS(date_settled) = 733274
AND RMAs.rma_id IN
(SELECT rma_id FROM rma_line_items HAVING COUNT(*)  1)

and it's netting me nothing, which I know is not true.  So to  
investigate I

just ran the subselect:

SELECT rma_id FROM rma_line_items HAVING COUNT(*)  1

and I find it's not giving me but one row, the first one to match  
having
more than one item.  But there are plenty more RMAs that have more  
than one

entry in the rma_line_items table and I need to get at them.

What am I doing wrong?  Any ideas?

Mike



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Re: Big SELECT: ordering results by where matches are found

2007-09-11 Thread Chris Sansom

At 13:34 -0400 10/9/07, Baron Schwartz wrote:
Looks like you've found the solution you need.  The only other 
suggestion I have is to use UNION ALL if you don't need to eliminate 
duplicate rows in the UNION, because there's some overhead for 
checking for them.


Hi Baron

Thanks for this, and I did try it, but the difference in time taken 
to execute the query was negligible (I tested it multiple times) - it 
was around 0.02 seconds whichever way I did it, and when I used 
EXPLAIN, the results were identical except for one detail:


The number of rows in the first row of the EXPLAIN result was lower 
with plain UNION than if I used UNION ALL. As far as I can tell from 
my relatively limited experience with all this, the first row refers 
to my outer 'wrapper' select from the derived table (the table in the 
first row is given as 'derived2' and the Extra column shows 'Using 
temporary'). For a given query, with UNION ALL that has 45 rows, with 
UNION it's 31. So I guess I'll stick to plain UNION.


As far as my desire to cope with multiple search terms is concerned, 
I realise now that fulltext handles that anyway! So I've changed the 
few non-numeric fields that weren't indexed that way (fore, sur and 
topic) to fulltext and bingo! Not only that, but it all happens fully 
FOUR TIMES as quickly!


So many thanks, Baron - mainly due to you, yesterday was a very good 
MySQL day for me. It's not often I get two 'lightbulb moments' on the 
same day!


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help with ORDER BY

2007-09-11 Thread Pedro Mpa
Hi all!

I need some help with ORDER BY in the following example. I want to order by
selected category, then by subcategories of the selected category, then by
categories with the same parent_id of the selected category, then by random
if possible, or random within the categories if possible, but the first
order by part is not working because is not returning products of the
selected category first, instead returns products from a top category
(parent_id = 0).

table categories
id | parent_id | category
- where parent_id is 0 for top categories.

table products
id | id_category | product

SELECT 
products.id, 
(SELECT 
CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(products.product)  40 THEN 
CONCAT(SUBSTRING(products.product,1,37),'...') 
ELSE products.product END) AS product, 
(SELECT 
CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(products.description)  70 THEN 
CONCAT(SUBSTRING(products.description,1,67),'...') 
ELSE products.description END) AS description 
FROM 
products 
WHERE 
products.id_stock = 1 
ORDER BY 
products.id_category IN (.$id_selected_category. 
, (SELECT categories.id 
FROM categories 
WHERE categories.parent_id = .$id_selected_category.) 
, (SELECT categories.id 
FROM categories 
WHERE categories.parent_id = .$parent_id.)) 
, RAND() LIMIT 11 

(the php vars have correct values)

Please apologise my bad English.
Thanks in advance.
Pedro.



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Re: Implement a logging table; avoiding conflicting inserts

2007-09-11 Thread dpgirago
 Given: MySQL 4.0.12, I need to implement a pageview log with a
 resolution of 1 day.

 I propose this table:

 CREATE TABLE `pageviews` (
   `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `date` date NOT NULL default '-00-00',
  `url` char(120) NOT NULL default '',
  `views` mediumint(9) NOT NULL default '0',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `date` (`date`,`url`),
  KEY `url` (`url`)
) TYPE=InnoDB;


 So that an update will look like:
   UPDATE pageviews SET views=views+1 WHERE date='DATE' AND
 url='ARTIST'
 
 Of course I need to INSERT the record if one does not match my WHERE.
 This would be easy if I had 4.1 -- INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE,
 I think -- but I do not. 

Would the REPLACE method work?

David

Re: help with ORDER BY

2007-09-11 Thread WiNK / Rob

Hi ,

I think i might have hit a bug, posted on forums.mysql.com but 
apparently nobody really reads that i think.


my table:

CREATE TABLE `clog` ( `cID` int(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, `lID` 
int(10) default NULL, `ip` int(10) default NULL, `timestamp` int(11) NOT 
NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`clickID`) ) ENGINE=MYISAM; or i use ARCHIVE


I have a bit of a problem that occurs only when i change my really 
simple log table to the archive engine. The replication breaks. Any 
thoughts? The row number of the error is variable. When the table is set 
to myisam, the replication does not break on duplicate key, and runs as 
expected.


Can't write; duplicate key in table 'clog'' on query.

Is it possible that due to the stress of the benchmark, my slave cannot 
compute the next cID or creates a duplicate (cId is the only variable 
that changes, on bench query)?




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archive engine potential bug

2007-09-11 Thread WiNK / Rob

W00ps forgot to update subject of my email,

WiNK / Rob wrote:

Hi ,

I think i might have hit a bug, posted on forums.mysql.com but 
apparently nobody really reads that i think.


my table:

CREATE TABLE `clog` ( `cID` int(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, `lID` 
int(10) default NULL, `ip` int(10) default NULL, `timestamp` int(11) 
NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`clickID`) ) ENGINE=MYISAM; or i use ARCHIVE


I have a bit of a problem that occurs only when i change my really 
simple log table to the archive engine. The replication breaks. Any 
thoughts? The row number of the error is variable. When the table is 
set to myisam, the replication does not break on duplicate key, and 
runs as expected.


Can't write; duplicate key in table 'clog'' on query.

Is it possible that due to the stress of the benchmark, my slave 
cannot compute the next cID or creates a duplicate (cId is the only 
variable that changes, on bench query)?









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Re: help with ORDER BY

2007-09-11 Thread Michael Dykman
Thing 1:  your auto_increment key MUST be your primary key.

Thing 2: the timestamp field will be updated with the current epochal
timestamp which only increments every second..   as you have a
timestamp field as you primary (and therefore unique) key, you will
never be able to perform more than one INSERT/UPDATE within the span
of any given second.

you need to redign the table, I'm afraid.

On 9/11/07, WiNK / Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi ,

 I think i might have hit a bug, posted on forums.mysql.com but
 apparently nobody really reads that i think.

 my table:

 CREATE TABLE `clog` ( `cID` int(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, `lID`
 int(10) default NULL, `ip` int(10) default NULL, `timestamp` int(11) NOT
 NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`clickID`) ) ENGINE=MYISAM; or i use ARCHIVE

 I have a bit of a problem that occurs only when i change my really
 simple log table to the archive engine. The replication breaks. Any
 thoughts? The row number of the error is variable. When the table is set
 to myisam, the replication does not break on duplicate key, and runs as
 expected.

 Can't write; duplicate key in table 'clog'' on query.

 Is it possible that due to the stress of the benchmark, my slave cannot
 compute the next cID or creates a duplicate (cId is the only variable
 that changes, on bench query)?



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RE: Implement a logging table; avoiding conflicting inserts

2007-09-11 Thread Fan, Wellington
   Given: MySQL 4.0.12, I need to implement a pageview log with a 
  resolution of 1 day.
..
 
 Would the REPLACE method work? 
 
 David


Hmmm...as I read the docs, the LOCK IN SHARED MODE seemed to be the
real key to this.


I created a test script and ran:

$ ab -n100 -c100 localhost/hits.php

Where hits.php looks like:

?php
/**
 * Import db connection parameters
 */

require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/generic/app_global.inc.php';

$err = null;
($date = $_GET['date']) or ($date = date('Y-m-d'));
($url  = $_GET['url'])  or ($url  = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);

/**
 * For testing, get a random date and URL
 */
$dates = array(
  '2007-09-11',
  '2007-09-12',
  '2007-09-13',
  );
$urls = array(
  'URL A',
  'URL B',
  'URL C',
  );

shuffle($dates);
shuffle($urls);

$date = pos($dates);
$url  = pos($urls);

/**
 * Connect
 */
$dblink =
mysql_connect($page_options['host_main'],$page_options['host_main_user']
,$page_options['host_main_pass']);
mysql_select_db('articles',$dblink);


/**
 * BEGIN TRANSACTION
 */
$rs = mysql_query('START TRANSACTION',$dblink);
$debug = 'Begin Transaction said:'.mysql_error($dblink).'';
error_log($debug.\n, 3, '/tmp/errors.log');

// see:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/innodb-next-key-locking.html
$sql = SELECT views FROM pageviews WHERE
date='.mysql_escape_string($date).' AND
url='.mysql_escape_string($url).' LOCK IN SHARE MODE;

/**
 * If NO records are returned, we need to INSERT with our first pageview
 */
$rs = mysql_query($sql,$dblink);
if( mysql_num_rows($rs) == 0 ) {
  $sql = INSERT INTO pageviews SET views=1,
date='.mysql_escape_string($date).',
url='.mysql_escape_string($url).';
} else {
  $sql = REPLACE INTO pageviews SET
views=.(intval(mysql_result($rs,0,'views'))+1).,
date='.mysql_escape_string($date).',
url='.mysql_escape_string($url).';
  //$sql = UPDATE pageviews SET views=views+1 WHERE
date='.mysql_escape_string($date).' AND
url='.mysql_escape_string($url).';
}
echo $sql;
$rs = mysql_query($sql,$dblink);

/**
 * Barely error-checking...
 */
if ( mysql_affected_rows($dblink) != 1 ) {
  $err = mysql_error($dblink);
  error_log ($err.\n, 3, '/tmp/errors.log');
}
mysql_query('COMMIT',$dblink);

?


As you can see, I tried *both* the REPLACE INTO and UPDATE queries
and received *very* strange results. I sum(views) and get roughly 115
views!! I expected 100 or less, but maybe I do NOT understand 'ab'.

So, I added this:
error_log('foo'.\n, 3, '/tmp/errors.log');
exit;

At the top of my script, and ran:
$ ab -n100 -c100 localhost/hits.php

Again, expecting 100 'foo's -- I get roughly 160!

What the hell? I guess I really *don't* understand ab...

Thoughts?

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Re: Implement a logging table; avoiding conflicting inserts

2007-09-11 Thread Baron Schwartz

Fan, Wellington wrote:
   Given: MySQL 4.0.12, I need to implement a pageview log with a 

resolution of 1 day.


If you want to brute-force it, I think I would go this route:

create table hits (
day date not null primary key,
hitcount int unsigned not null,
);
insert ignore into hits(day, hitcount) values (current_date, 0);
update hits set hitcount = hitcount + 1 where day = current_date;

No transactions.  Your application logic can perhaps be smart and avoid 
the first query.  But the transactional method with locking in share 
mode is probably going to have a lot more overhead and lower concurrency 
than my suggestion.


Baron

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Re: Really strange index/speed issues

2007-09-11 Thread Chris Hemmings

Chris Hemmings wrote:

Baron Schwartz wrote:

Hi Chris,

Chris Hemmings wrote:

Dan Buettner wrote:

Chris, a couple of thoughts -

First, your index on the section is doing you no good (at this time) 
since
all the values are the same.  You may already know that, but thought 
I'd

mention it.

Second, my theory on why query #1 is faster - if all your prices 
range from
1 up, and you're querying for prices greater than 0, then MySQL can 
just

return the first 30 rows after sorting them.

The second query, where you are looking for prices greater than 1, 
MySQL has
to sort and then examine a number of rows until it finds enough 
matching
rows (price  1) to satisfy your query. This likely takes a little 
bit of
time.  How many rows do you have with price = 1?  It would have to 
scan over
that many before it could start satisfying your query, if you think 
about

it.

HTH,
Dan



On 9/10/07, Chris Hemmings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

I have a table, currently holding 128,978 rows...  In this table, I 
have a
section column (int) and a price column (int).  Every row has a 
section of

1
currently, every row has a price, ranging from 1 to 10,000.

I have an index on both columns separately.

Have a look at these two queries, can someone tell me why there is 
such a
difference in speed of execution?  (Note difference in price 
qualifier)




SELECT *
FROM `table1`
WHERE price 0
AND section =1
ORDER BY price
LIMIT 0 , 30

Showing rows 0 - 29 (128,978 total, Query took 0.9462 sec)

Explain output: 1 SIMPLE table1 ALL section,price NULL NULL NULL 96734
Using
where; Using filesort



SELECT *
FROM `table1`
WHERE price 1
AND section =1
ORDER BY price
LIMIT 0 , 30


Showing rows 0 - 29 (128,949 total, Query took 0.0008 sec)

Explain output: 1 SIMPLE table1 ALL section,price NULL NULL NULL 96734
Using
where; Using filesort



Other info:

Query cacheing = off
MySQL version = 5.0.32
OS  = Debian Sarge

Sure, the second query returns 29 fewer records than the first, but 
should

that make the difference in time?

Hope you can shed some light onto this :-)

Ta!

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Thanks Dan,

I've got you on the section index... I was going to use that later, 
when I get somre real data in there.


Anyway,  I agree with your logic, but, the inverse is happening.  The 
one where it has to actually exclude some rows (because price1) is 
actually faster.  Thats really why this has me baffled, I would 
presume that the price1 would be slower as it does have to filter 
rows out first.


There's an easy way to find out:  FLUSH STATUS, run the query, SHOW 
STATUS LIKE 'handler%'.  Do this on an otherwise quiet server if 
possible.Or use MySQL Query Profiler -- it does a lot of math for you 
:-)Baron









Thanks Baron!

I think you have hit upon something, doing what you said on a 'silent' 
server, I get the following:


SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE price 1 AND section =1 ORDER BY price 
LIMIT 0 , 30;


30 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql SHOW STATUS LIKE 'handler%';
++---+
| Variable_name  | Value |
++---+
| Handler_commit | 0 |
| Handler_delete | 0 |
| Handler_discover   | 0 |
| Handler_prepare| 0 |
| Handler_read_first | 0 |
| Handler_read_key   | 1 |
| Handler_read_next  | 29|
| Handler_read_prev  | 0 |
| Handler_read_rnd   | 0 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next  | 0 |
| Handler_rollback   | 0 |
| Handler_savepoint  | 0 |
| Handler_savepoint_rollback | 0 |
| Handler_update | 0 |
| Handler_write  | 14|
++---+
15 rows in set (0.00 sec)


SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE price 0 AND section =1 ORDER BY price 
LIMIT 0 , 30;


30 rows in set (0.95 sec)

mysql SHOW STATUS LIKE 'handler%';
+++
| Variable_name  | Value  |
+++
| Handler_commit | 0  |
| Handler_delete | 0  |
| Handler_discover   | 0  |
| Handler_prepare| 0  |
| Handler_read_first | 0  |
| Handler_read_key   | 1  |
| Handler_read_next  | 128978 |
| Handler_read_prev  | 0  |
| Handler_read_rnd   | 30 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next  | 0  |
| Handler_rollback   | 0  |
| Handler_savepoint  | 0  |
| Handler_savepoint_rollback | 0  |
| Handler_update | 0  |
| Handler_write  | 14 |
+++
15 rows in set (0.01 sec)

So, the slower query obvisouly 

Re: Really strange index/speed issues

2007-09-11 Thread Baron Schwartz

Chris Hemmings wrote:

Chris Hemmings wrote:

Baron Schwartz wrote:

Hi Chris,

Chris Hemmings wrote:

Dan Buettner wrote:

Chris, a couple of thoughts -

First, your index on the section is doing you no good (at this 
time) since
all the values are the same.  You may already know that, but 
thought I'd

mention it.

Second, my theory on why query #1 is faster - if all your prices 
range from
1 up, and you're querying for prices greater than 0, then MySQL can 
just

return the first 30 rows after sorting them.

The second query, where you are looking for prices greater than 1, 
MySQL has
to sort and then examine a number of rows until it finds enough 
matching
rows (price  1) to satisfy your query. This likely takes a little 
bit of
time.  How many rows do you have with price = 1?  It would have to 
scan over
that many before it could start satisfying your query, if you think 
about

it.

HTH,
Dan



On 9/10/07, Chris Hemmings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

I have a table, currently holding 128,978 rows...  In this table, 
I have a
section column (int) and a price column (int).  Every row has a 
section of

1
currently, every row has a price, ranging from 1 to 10,000.

I have an index on both columns separately.

Have a look at these two queries, can someone tell me why there is 
such a
difference in speed of execution?  (Note difference in price 
qualifier)




SELECT *
FROM `table1`
WHERE price 0
AND section =1
ORDER BY price
LIMIT 0 , 30

Showing rows 0 - 29 (128,978 total, Query took 0.9462 sec)

Explain output: 1 SIMPLE table1 ALL section,price NULL NULL NULL 
96734

Using
where; Using filesort



SELECT *
FROM `table1`
WHERE price 1
AND section =1
ORDER BY price
LIMIT 0 , 30


Showing rows 0 - 29 (128,949 total, Query took 0.0008 sec)

Explain output: 1 SIMPLE table1 ALL section,price NULL NULL NULL 
96734

Using
where; Using filesort



Other info:

Query cacheing = off
MySQL version = 5.0.32
OS  = Debian Sarge

Sure, the second query returns 29 fewer records than the first, 
but should

that make the difference in time?

Hope you can shed some light onto this :-)

Ta!

Chris.



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Thanks Dan,

I've got you on the section index... I was going to use that later, 
when I get somre real data in there.


Anyway,  I agree with your logic, but, the inverse is happening.  
The one where it has to actually exclude some rows (because price1) 
is actually faster.  Thats really why this has me baffled, I would 
presume that the price1 would be slower as it does have to filter 
rows out first.


There's an easy way to find out:  FLUSH STATUS, run the query, SHOW 
STATUS LIKE 'handler%'.  Do this on an otherwise quiet server if 
possible.Or use MySQL Query Profiler -- it does a lot of math for you 
:-)Baron









Thanks Baron!

I think you have hit upon something, doing what you said on a 'silent' 
server, I get the following:


SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE price 1 AND section =1 ORDER BY price 
LIMIT 0 , 30;


30 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql SHOW STATUS LIKE 'handler%';
++---+
| Variable_name  | Value |
++---+
| Handler_commit | 0 |
| Handler_delete | 0 |
| Handler_discover   | 0 |
| Handler_prepare| 0 |
| Handler_read_first | 0 |
| Handler_read_key   | 1 |
| Handler_read_next  | 29|
| Handler_read_prev  | 0 |
| Handler_read_rnd   | 0 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next  | 0 |
| Handler_rollback   | 0 |
| Handler_savepoint  | 0 |
| Handler_savepoint_rollback | 0 |
| Handler_update | 0 |
| Handler_write  | 14|
++---+
15 rows in set (0.00 sec)


SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE price 0 AND section =1 ORDER BY price 
LIMIT 0 , 30;


30 rows in set (0.95 sec)

mysql SHOW STATUS LIKE 'handler%';
+++
| Variable_name  | Value  |
+++
| Handler_commit | 0  |
| Handler_delete | 0  |
| Handler_discover   | 0  |
| Handler_prepare| 0  |
| Handler_read_first | 0  |
| Handler_read_key   | 1  |
| Handler_read_next  | 128978 |
| Handler_read_prev  | 0  |
| Handler_read_rnd   | 30 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next  | 0  |
| Handler_rollback   | 0  |
| Handler_savepoint  | 0  |
| Handler_savepoint_rollback | 0  |
| Handler_update | 0  |
| Handler_write  | 14 |
+++
15 rows in set (0.01 sec)

So, 

Re: Really strange index/speed issues

2007-09-11 Thread Michael Dykman
The results of an EXPLAIN have a lot to do with the data which is
actually on the system.   In this case, it seems to hinge on the
distribution of your 'price' attribute..  how many records on your
system?  and what is the general distribution of the price attribute?
(how many distinct values)

On 9/11/07, Chris Hemmings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Chris Hemmings wrote:
  Baron Schwartz wrote:
  Hi Chris,
 
  Chris Hemmings wrote:
  Dan Buettner wrote:
  Chris, a couple of thoughts -
 
  First, your index on the section is doing you no good (at this time)
  since
  all the values are the same.  You may already know that, but thought
  I'd
  mention it.
 
  Second, my theory on why query #1 is faster - if all your prices
  range from
  1 up, and you're querying for prices greater than 0, then MySQL can
  just
  return the first 30 rows after sorting them.
 
  The second query, where you are looking for prices greater than 1,
  MySQL has
  to sort and then examine a number of rows until it finds enough
  matching
  rows (price  1) to satisfy your query. This likely takes a little
  bit of
  time.  How many rows do you have with price = 1?  It would have to
  scan over
  that many before it could start satisfying your query, if you think
  about
  it.
 
  HTH,
  Dan
 
 
 
  On 9/10/07, Chris Hemmings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hello,
 
  I have a table, currently holding 128,978 rows...  In this table, I
  have a
  section column (int) and a price column (int).  Every row has a
  section of
  1
  currently, every row has a price, ranging from 1 to 10,000.
 
  I have an index on both columns separately.
 
  Have a look at these two queries, can someone tell me why there is
  such a
  difference in speed of execution?  (Note difference in price
  qualifier)
 
  
 
  SELECT *
  FROM `table1`
  WHERE price 0
  AND section =1
  ORDER BY price
  LIMIT 0 , 30
 
  Showing rows 0 - 29 (128,978 total, Query took 0.9462 sec)
 
  Explain output: 1 SIMPLE table1 ALL section,price NULL NULL NULL 96734
  Using
  where; Using filesort
 
  
 
  SELECT *
  FROM `table1`
  WHERE price 1
  AND section =1
  ORDER BY price
  LIMIT 0 , 30
 
 
  Showing rows 0 - 29 (128,949 total, Query took 0.0008 sec)
 
  Explain output: 1 SIMPLE table1 ALL section,price NULL NULL NULL 96734
  Using
  where; Using filesort
 
  
 
  Other info:
 
  Query cacheing = off
  MySQL version = 5.0.32
  OS  = Debian Sarge
 
  Sure, the second query returns 29 fewer records than the first, but
  should
  that make the difference in time?
 
  Hope you can shed some light onto this :-)
 
  Ta!
 
  Chris.
 
 
 
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  Thanks Dan,
 
  I've got you on the section index... I was going to use that later,
  when I get somre real data in there.
 
  Anyway,  I agree with your logic, but, the inverse is happening.  The
  one where it has to actually exclude some rows (because price1) is
  actually faster.  Thats really why this has me baffled, I would
  presume that the price1 would be slower as it does have to filter
  rows out first.
 
  There's an easy way to find out:  FLUSH STATUS, run the query, SHOW
  STATUS LIKE 'handler%'.  Do this on an otherwise quiet server if
  possible.Or use MySQL Query Profiler -- it does a lot of math for you
  :-)Baron
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Thanks Baron!
 
  I think you have hit upon something, doing what you said on a 'silent'
  server, I get the following:
 
  SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE price 1 AND section =1 ORDER BY price
  LIMIT 0 , 30;
 
  30 rows in set (0.00 sec)
 
  mysql SHOW STATUS LIKE 'handler%';
  ++---+
  | Variable_name  | Value |
  ++---+
  | Handler_commit | 0 |
  | Handler_delete | 0 |
  | Handler_discover   | 0 |
  | Handler_prepare| 0 |
  | Handler_read_first | 0 |
  | Handler_read_key   | 1 |
  | Handler_read_next  | 29|
  | Handler_read_prev  | 0 |
  | Handler_read_rnd   | 0 |
  | Handler_read_rnd_next  | 0 |
  | Handler_rollback   | 0 |
  | Handler_savepoint  | 0 |
  | Handler_savepoint_rollback | 0 |
  | Handler_update | 0 |
  | Handler_write  | 14|
  ++---+
  15 rows in set (0.00 sec)
 
 
  SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE price 0 AND section =1 ORDER BY price
  LIMIT 0 , 30;
 
  30 rows in set (0.95 sec)
 
  mysql SHOW STATUS LIKE 'handler%';
  +++
  | Variable_name  | Value  |
  +++
  | Handler_commit | 0  |
  | Handler_delete | 0  |
  | 

Re: Really strange index/speed issues

2007-09-11 Thread Chris Hemmings

Baron Schwartz wrote:

Chris Hemmings wrote:

Chris Hemmings wrote:

Baron Schwartz wrote:

Hi Chris,

Chris Hemmings wrote:

Dan Buettner wrote:

Chris, a couple of thoughts -

First, your index on the section is doing you no good (at this 
time) since
all the values are the same.  You may already know that, but 
thought I'd

mention it.

Second, my theory on why query #1 is faster - if all your prices 
range from
1 up, and you're querying for prices greater than 0, then MySQL 
can just

return the first 30 rows after sorting them.

The second query, where you are looking for prices greater than 
1, MySQL has
to sort and then examine a number of rows until it finds enough 
matching
rows (price  1) to satisfy your query. This likely takes a 
little bit of
time.  How many rows do you have with price = 1?  It would have 
to scan over
that many before it could start satisfying your query, if you 
think about

it.

HTH,
Dan



On 9/10/07, Chris Hemmings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

I have a table, currently holding 128,978 rows...  In this 
table, I have a
section column (int) and a price column (int).  Every row has a 
section of

1
currently, every row has a price, ranging from 1 to 10,000.

I have an index on both columns separately.

Have a look at these two queries, can someone tell me why there 
is such a
difference in speed of execution?  (Note difference in price 
qualifier)




SELECT *
FROM `table1`
WHERE price 0
AND section =1
ORDER BY price
LIMIT 0 , 30

Showing rows 0 - 29 (128,978 total, Query took 0.9462 sec)

Explain output: 1 SIMPLE table1 ALL section,price NULL NULL NULL 
96734

Using
where; Using filesort



SELECT *
FROM `table1`
WHERE price 1
AND section =1
ORDER BY price
LIMIT 0 , 30


Showing rows 0 - 29 (128,949 total, Query took 0.0008 sec)

Explain output: 1 SIMPLE table1 ALL section,price NULL NULL NULL 
96734

Using
where; Using filesort



Other info:

Query cacheing = off
MySQL version = 5.0.32
OS  = Debian Sarge

Sure, the second query returns 29 fewer records than the first, 
but should

that make the difference in time?

Hope you can shed some light onto this :-)

Ta!

Chris.



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Thanks Dan,

I've got you on the section index... I was going to use that 
later, when I get somre real data in there.


Anyway,  I agree with your logic, but, the inverse is happening.  
The one where it has to actually exclude some rows (because 
price1) is actually faster.  Thats really why this has me 
baffled, I would presume that the price1 would be slower as it 
does have to filter rows out first.


There's an easy way to find out:  FLUSH STATUS, run the query, SHOW 
STATUS LIKE 'handler%'.  Do this on an otherwise quiet server if 
possible.Or use MySQL Query Profiler -- it does a lot of math for 
you :-)Baron









Thanks Baron!

I think you have hit upon something, doing what you said on a 
'silent' server, I get the following:


SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE price 1 AND section =1 ORDER BY price 
LIMIT 0 , 30;


30 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql SHOW STATUS LIKE 'handler%';
++---+
| Variable_name  | Value |
++---+
| Handler_commit | 0 |
| Handler_delete | 0 |
| Handler_discover   | 0 |
| Handler_prepare| 0 |
| Handler_read_first | 0 |
| Handler_read_key   | 1 |
| Handler_read_next  | 29|
| Handler_read_prev  | 0 |
| Handler_read_rnd   | 0 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next  | 0 |
| Handler_rollback   | 0 |
| Handler_savepoint  | 0 |
| Handler_savepoint_rollback | 0 |
| Handler_update | 0 |
| Handler_write  | 14|
++---+
15 rows in set (0.00 sec)


SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE price 0 AND section =1 ORDER BY price 
LIMIT 0 , 30;


30 rows in set (0.95 sec)

mysql SHOW STATUS LIKE 'handler%';
+++
| Variable_name  | Value  |
+++
| Handler_commit | 0  |
| Handler_delete | 0  |
| Handler_discover   | 0  |
| Handler_prepare| 0  |
| Handler_read_first | 0  |
| Handler_read_key   | 1  |
| Handler_read_next  | 128978 |
| Handler_read_prev  | 0  |
| Handler_read_rnd   | 30 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next  | 0  |
| Handler_rollback   | 0  |
| Handler_savepoint  | 0  |
| Handler_savepoint_rollback | 0  |
| Handler_update | 0  |
| Handler_write  | 14 |
+++
15 rows 

Re: archive engine potential bug

2007-09-11 Thread Rob
also when it hits a dupl. and i skip the record, and continue slave it
hits another duplicate entry almost instantly, when i then drop the
table on the slave, and recreate it manually and set it to myisam at
that time, the slave continues without a problem.


On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:42 +0200, WiNK / Rob wrote:
 W00ps forgot to update subject of my email,
 
 WiNK / Rob wrote:
  Hi ,
 
  I think i might have hit a bug, posted on forums.mysql.com but 
  apparently nobody really reads that i think.
 
  my table:
 
  CREATE TABLE `clog` ( `cID` int(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, `lID` 
  int(10) default NULL, `ip` int(10) default NULL, `timestamp` int(11) 
  NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`clickID`) ) ENGINE=MYISAM; or i use ARCHIVE
 
  I have a bit of a problem that occurs only when i change my really 
  simple log table to the archive engine. The replication breaks. Any 
  thoughts? The row number of the error is variable. When the table is 
  set to myisam, the replication does not break on duplicate key, and 
  runs as expected.
 
  Can't write; duplicate key in table 'clog'' on query.
 
  Is it possible that due to the stress of the benchmark, my slave 
  cannot compute the next cID or creates a duplicate (cId is the only 
  variable that changes, on bench query)?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Copying InnoDB files to remote server - remote server won't start

2007-09-11 Thread Whil Hentzen

Hi gang,

After reading through two years of 'how do I back up my database' 
threads, I'm trying out the various backup mechanisms offered up.


I've read through these steps:
  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-backup.html

Running a local box and a remote box, both with Fedora 6, MySQL 5. 
Trying to copy a local /var/lib/mysql/mydata InnoDB.


The problem: After I copy InnoDB files to a remote box, the MySQL server 
on the remote box won't restart. Here are the steps I've followed:


1. Stop the local and remote servers
2. Rename the remote ibdata and ib_logfile0 files
3. Copy the local ibdata and ib_logfile0 files to the remote 
/var/lib/mysql folder
4. Copy the local /var/lib/mysql/mydata/* to the remote 
/var/lib/mysql/mydata/* folder (contains one .frm and db.opt)

5. Change the ownership of the remote files and folders to 'mysql'
6. Restart the remote server (service mysqld start)
7. Failure, with a 'timeout' error

There is no error log created in the remote /var/lib/mysql folder.

When I rid the copied files and folders, and then rename the originals 
back to their initial names, the server starts up nice and neat again.


I can copy a MyISAM database from the local box to the remote box and it 
is accessible via the remote MySQL server just fine.


Obviously, there is something wrong in the way I'm copying the InnoDB 
files.


What am I missing?

Whil

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Re: Copying InnoDB files to remote server - remote server won't start

2007-09-11 Thread Whil Hentzen

Michael Dykman wrote:

if you see no errors, check your config...  are you sure InnoDB is enabled ?


I can create a new database and add InnoDB tables to it without problems.

Ack, I lied. No error in the /var/lib/mysql, but there IS an error file 
in /var/logs, and it contains:


./ibdata1: error 13 in a file operation
mysqld does not have access rights to the directory

But. I'm sitting here looking and I can't see any difference between 
the ibdata1 and the ibdata1_orig files, nor the folders that contain the 
.frm files either.


There must be something but I sure can't see it...

Whil


On 9/11/07, Whil Hentzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi gang,

After reading through two years of 'how do I back up my database'
threads, I'm trying out the various backup mechanisms offered up.

I've read through these steps:
   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-backup.html

Running a local box and a remote box, both with Fedora 6, MySQL 5.
Trying to copy a local /var/lib/mysql/mydata InnoDB.

The problem: After I copy InnoDB files to a remote box, the MySQL server
on the remote box won't restart. Here are the steps I've followed:

1. Stop the local and remote servers
2. Rename the remote ibdata and ib_logfile0 files
3. Copy the local ibdata and ib_logfile0 files to the remote
/var/lib/mysql folder
4. Copy the local /var/lib/mysql/mydata/* to the remote
/var/lib/mysql/mydata/* folder (contains one .frm and db.opt)
5. Change the ownership of the remote files and folders to 'mysql'
6. Restart the remote server (service mysqld start)
7. Failure, with a 'timeout' error

There is no error log created in the remote /var/lib/mysql folder.

When I rid the copied files and folders, and then rename the originals
back to their initial names, the server starts up nice and neat again.

I can copy a MyISAM database from the local box to the remote box and it
is accessible via the remote MySQL server just fine.

Obviously, there is something wrong in the way I'm copying the InnoDB
files.

What am I missing?

Whil

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Re: Copying InnoDB files to remote server - remote server won't start

2007-09-11 Thread Baron Schwartz

Whil Hentzen wrote:

Michael Dykman wrote:
if you see no errors, check your config...  are you sure InnoDB is 
enabled ?


I can create a new database and add InnoDB tables to it without problems.

Ack, I lied. No error in the /var/lib/mysql, but there IS an error file 
in /var/logs, and it contains:


./ibdata1: error 13 in a file operation
mysqld does not have access rights to the directory

But. I'm sitting here looking and I can't see any difference between 
the ibdata1 and the ibdata1_orig files, nor the folders that contain the 
.frm files either.


Ownership and permissions are both identical?

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Re: Copying InnoDB files to remote server - remote server won't start

2007-09-11 Thread Whil Hentzen

Baron Schwartz wrote:

Whil Hentzen wrote:

Michael Dykman wrote:
if you see no errors, check your config...  are you sure InnoDB is 
enabled ?


I can create a new database and add InnoDB tables to it without problems.

Ack, I lied. No error in the /var/lib/mysql, but there IS an error 
file in /var/logs, and it contains:


./ibdata1: error 13 in a file operation
mysqld does not have access rights to the directory

But. I'm sitting here looking and I can't see any difference 
between the ibdata1 and the ibdata1_orig files, nor the folders that 
contain the .frm files either.


Ownership and permissions are both identical?


As best as I can tell - here's the remote machine list:

drwxr-xr-x 11 mysql mysql 4096 Sep 11 18:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 root  root  4096 May 10 11:17 ..
drwx--  2 mysql mysql 4096 Sep 11 13:22 delme
drwx--  2 mysql mysql 4096 Sep 11 14:19 delmeinno
-rw-r-  1 mysql mysql 10485760 Sep 11 17:10 ibdata1
-rw-rw  1 mysql mysql 10485760 Sep 11 14:19 ibdata1_5
-rw-r-  1 mysql mysql  5242880 Sep 11 17:10 ib_logfile0
-rw-rw  1 mysql mysql  5242880 Sep 11 14:20 ib_logfile0_5

There are two databases here.

delme is MyISAM. Works fine.
delmeinno is the InnoDB. The original works fine.

ibdata1 and ib_logfile0 are the original InnoDB files. They work fine.

ibdata1_5 and ib_logfile0_5 are the InnoDB files that were copied from 
the local box. Yes, i see that these have 'w' permissions for mysql 
group but I can't see why that would matter or cause the error that is 
occurring.


When I get rid of the ibdata1 and ib_logfile0 files (move them 
elsewhere), and then rename the '5's so that MySQL tries to access 
those, the MySQL server won't start.


Whil

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Mail not being accepted

2007-09-11 Thread Sam Klin
When I try to email to this list my email is reject with the following message?

Error: 552 Mail with no Date header not accepted here

My Mail has a date header in it...?

Re: Question: table schema optimization

2007-09-11 Thread Brent Baisley
You should read up on the show status and show variables output.  
That will give you a start as to perhaps some obvious issues. For  
instances, your opened_tables and threads_created should not be  
large. Using the right table types is also a very big issue, although  
you may have gone down that path already.
You can try doing a search on remember.yahoo.com and mysql, they ran  
into some interesting performance bottlenecks they had to solve.  
Installing mytop may also be helpful to determine what's going on.  
Finally, you should also consider what is going on in the OS, I like  
vmstat for a quick overview. I don't know what you definition of  
performance is not good. Following a strict formula may be part  
of your problem. Nobody normalizes their database to fifth normal  
form, it would be too slow and complicated.


Check this link out:
http://dev.mysql.com/books/hpmysql-excerpts/ch06.html
The last paragraph has a bit on yahoo.


On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:10 AM, Hailiang Ji wrote:


Folks,

A help needed. My manager's pushed me to optimize the tables that I
created in distributed in several DBs. I have tried best to explain  
to him
that I have followed the strict formula design to do the Join,  
Search and

so on. However, the system performance is not good enough yet when our
system get thousands' users visiting in the same time.

Could anyone point me something so that I can tune the system  
performance?
I don't think my db tables have problems. I guess I should  
investigate on
the deployment, for example, cluster, load-balancing and so on? Our  
system

hs big traffic at daytime, usually at noon time or at evening.

Thanks in advance,


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Re: Question: table schema optimization

2007-09-11 Thread Chris

Hailiang Ji wrote:

Folks,

A help needed. My manager's pushed me to optimize the tables that I
created in distributed in several DBs. I have tried best to explain to him
that I have followed the strict formula design to do the Join, Search and
so on. However, the system performance is not good enough yet when our
system get thousands' users visiting in the same time.


Maybe you're missing some indexes.

Enable slow-query-log and see where your time is being spent.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/slow-query-log.html

Once you have some data, use explain to work out whether a query is 
using an index.


Or try mysql_explain_log:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/mysql-explain-log.html


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Suggested tools to benchmark configuration changes

2007-09-11 Thread Rob Wultsch
I have a server that has several hundred table in a few different databases
comprising almost a gig of data, all running on a rather old  (3.23) version
of mysql. I have used the slow query log to identify queries and have
optimized the queries significantly. At this point the entries in the
slow-query log (with long query time set around at 3 seconds) usually
examine between 1k and 10k rows. When I run the query to test them the query
time is generally under .1 second.

The server is basically running with a my-small.cnf and I think that most of
the rest of  performance I can pull out of the server will come from tuning
the mysql server variables for table cache and temporary table size. I am
concerned that I might have issues with ram usage. With this in mind:
1. Is there some way to use the general query log to test different server
configurations with a real world assortment of queries? Perhaps some way to
use mysqlslap? Any other suggestions for benchmarking tools?
2. I see entries in the slow query log where the number of row examined does
not correlate with EXPLAIN's that I run of the queries on the production
server. Is this likely a situation where mysql needs index hints, or could
something else be in play?

Thank you in advance for any help. RTFM welcomed, just point out what page
;)

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