Re: Problem with mysql and php

From: Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:32:43 +0000
Subject: Re: Problem with mysql and php
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Jason Pruim <lists@pruimphotography.com> wrote: > Given the following 2 queries: > > "SELECT DISTINCT areacode FROM main WHERE state = '{$query_exploded[0]}'"; > > "SELECT DISTINCT areacode FROM main"; > > The second displays ALOT faster.... Like by minutes... the first one is what I really want > though.... Currently working with a dataset of 89 million records, will be expanding that to many > many more times that... To the tune of possibly a couple billion records... > > Any ideas? :) make state an index into the table.

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