Re^4: Slow script: DBI, MySQL, or just too much data?

testDBToMCQDB, which is where we've had the most optimize problems, has 9 columns, a 2-colum primary key, and ~8.5 million rows. It's a MyISAM table, and has four indexes -- the primary key, 2 single-column indices, and one with the same cols as the key, but in opposite order -- these were all created to speed up select statements which were causing problems.
I expect this script to delete something like 40% of the data from each table.

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Re^5: Slow script: DBI, MySQL, or just too much data? by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 15, 2005 at 18:11 UTC
drop the indices, delete the columns, optimize the table, create the indices. You'll find a roughly 70% speedup. My wife's blog	[reply]