Re: Performance/Efficiency

2002-08-12 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0400, Cummings, Shawn (GNAPs) wrote: > If I have 4,000,000 records, and I just want to make sure that the last 100 > records do not contain a certain value, ... how can I efficiently 'count' > the number of times in the LAST 100 records that a specific condit

Re: Performance/Efficiency

2002-08-12 Thread //mikezero/
if you are using this while going through an API like perl,php,c,c++ then you could do a call like "select LogID from Log WHERE LogIP="10.0.0.22" ORDER BY LogID DESC LIMIT 100" and run mysql_num_rows() on the resultant mysql query object. hope this is at least somewhat helpful. Cummings, Sh