Re: blob versus file

2002-07-03 Thread central
Kristian, >Question: Can the MySQL BLOB API access and transfer partial >blobs. That is, if you want to do the equivalent of a "file *" >to a BLOB table, the first 10 bytes or so of each BLOB must be >read in order to guess the type of the BLOB. Is it possible to >implement this efficiently using

Re: 3.23.51 LIMIT efficiency problem

2002-06-20 Thread central
At 09:03 PM 6/19/2002, you wrote: >I am using MySQL 3.23.51 on Linux. I have a fixed-length table with 45 >million rows. It appears MySQL has an efficiency issue with the LIMIT >command. When I run SELECT a FROM b LIMIT 0, 100 <-- that's one >million >The query finishes almost immediately