RE: [PHP] Can php/mysql handle 10000s of records

Suprisingly MySQL is very good, as the others have said... I've been involved in a few sites that have been known to hammer the DB pretty hard.. And it's stood up to the test... Hmmm... I am sure others here can validate this... But I think the size limit for the database is about 4 gigs!!! That's a ton... The last company I had worked for had a huge customer database... But on a different system... But similar.. And it was only 280 megs!!! It contain records for over 58,000 customers... And inventory, accounting... Blah blah.... Probably the most critical thing to remember is efficient code... And optimizd use of MySQL... If you follow that, MySQL and PHP will scream... There are somethings you can do for MySQL... I was trying to locate an article for you that I read just the other day... But they were talking about indexing MySQL... I am sure the other members of this board can point you in the right direction... Have a great day Joe Harman http://www.HarmanMedia.com Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers -----Original Message----- From: Adam Gerson [mailto:agersonl@cgps.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:54 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Can php/mysql handle 10000s of records From: Adam Gerson <agerson@cgps.org> Date: Wed Jul 9, 2003 9:48:20 AM America/New_York To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Can php/mysql handle 1000's of records? I know this questions is a little of topic, but I figured the members of this list would have experience in this area. I am writing an attendance system in php/mysql for my school. We have a little less then 1000 students. For every day of the school year one record will be entered into a table for each student representing their attendance status (present, absent, late, etc...). I also have several other supporting tables for relationships. When it comes to reporting and querying this DB I am worried that it will very quickly become very large and slow. Can mysql handle this? Are there any techniques to speed it up? I will trying indexing major columns. I have also considered keeping all previous days attendance in a separate table from the current days attendance and moving things over in the middle of the night. This way any operations on the current days data will go quickly, but reports on long term things will still be slow. Good idea? Thanks, Adam ------------------------------- Adam Gerson Systems Administrator / Computer Teacher Columbia Grammar and Prep School 212-749-6200 agerson@cgps.org www.cgps.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php