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Large table Long query Time

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Hi all, am fairly new to DB's and wondering if anyone can help me out.

I am writing a web app that requires a frequent query that is variable in a large database.

The table has 2.6 million rows.

Columns

| A | B | C | D | E | F |

SELECT * FROM [table]
WHERE (A <= '$input') AND (B >= '$input')

Almost all the data in all rows is unique, the $input is unpredictable and highly variable.

MySQL / webserver are running on a Dedicated Win 2003 Box Pentium Xeon with 1GB Ram on a SCSI HD.

MySQL 5 mostly default settings.


Any suggestions on settings / query / anything. The can take up to 10 seconds which is just oo long for my needs

Thanks
May 25 '07 #1
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pbmods
5,821 Expert 4TB
Try setting some indexes. You also might want to put EXPLAIN in front of your queries to figure out why MySQL is searching so many rows.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/indexes.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/explain.html
May 25 '07 #2

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