RE: [PHP-DB] enum and bad planning

2002-10-01 Thread John W. Holmes
> At 03:35 PM 10/1/02 -0400, John W. Holmes wrote: > >You should BENCHMARK the two solutions and see which is faster. Or use > >EXPLAIN to see if there is any difference. > > I have no doubt this will be slower. Oh well, he wanted to keep the table > definitions. > > Don't forget to consider th

RE: [PHP-DB] enum and bad planning

2002-10-01 Thread Rick Widmer
At 03:35 PM 10/1/02 -0400, John W. Holmes wrote: >You should BENCHMARK the two solutions and see which is faster. Or use >EXPLAIN to see if there is any difference. I have no doubt this will be slower. Oh well, he wanted to keep the table definitions. Don't forget to consider the time required

RE: [PHP-DB] enum and bad planning

2002-10-01 Thread John W. Holmes
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] enum and bad planning > > > Thanks for the responses. I got one earlier that did the trick. I wanted > to try as hard as i could from altering the table, as i was already using > the Y value in other reports...and here is a g

RE: [PHP-DB] enum and bad planning

2002-10-01 Thread Jeffrey_N_Dyke
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RE: [PHP-DB] enum and bad planning

2002-10-01 Thread John W. Holmes
> I have five enum fields, all Y/N. There is now(last minute) a requirment > to > report on all clients that said Y to more then one of the questions(its a > survey). Had i known about this requirement, i could have made them BIT > and had a simple 1/0 option and summed the fields to check the to