That doesn't look too bad. Is the query that slow when you use the
command-line client alone (connected directly to the server), or is it
just when accessing the database through the ODBC tunnel?
--Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) [mailto:lists@stripped]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:14 PM
> To: Michael S. Fischer
> Cc: mysql@stripped
> Subject: RE: Need help optimizing query, awfully slow on only
> 20000 records
>
>
>
> Result of EXPLAIN is:
> table|type|possible_keys|key|key_len|ref|rows|Extra
> inquiries|ALL|contact_id| | | |8253|Using filesort
> individual_contacts|eq_ref|PRIMARY,indiv_contact_id|PRIMARY|3|
> inquiries.indiv_contact_id|1
>
> source_for_inquiries_form|eq_ref|PRIMARY,contact_id|PRIMARY|3|
> inquiries.contact_id|1
>
>
>
> > What does EXPLAIN SELECT <query> show? Have you read the
> chapter in the
> > manual on optimizing queries? Do you have all the proper
> indices set
> > up?
> >
> > --Michael
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) [mailto:lists@stripped]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:52 PM
> > > To: j.smith@stripped
> > > Cc: mysql@stripped
> > > Subject: RE: Need help optimizing query, awfully slow on only
> > > 20000 records
> > >
> > >
> > > When following query is pulled up, it takes about whole 1-2
> > > minutes to come up. "inquiries" table has 17000 records,
> > > "contacts" has about 7000, "individual_contacts" has about
> > > 16000. It has gotten worse once I upgraded to 4.0 and latest
> > > MyODBC. Clients are separate machines (mix of Win98 and
> > > WinXP). Those 20K records is what feeds the Access97 form,
> > > pull down list filters out some and pulls up about 3K and
> > > people just start typing a name and then (since there
> > > multiple inquiries for some clients) pull down the list to
> > > pick inquiry they want.
> > >
> > > > What are you defining as a huge performance hit?
> > > >
> > > > Is the result set 20K records, or the base tables? How
> big are the
> > > > base tables?
> > > >
> > > > Are the client and server on the same machine? Pulling
> 20K records
> > > > across the network could take some time. Formatting 20K
> > > records into a
> > > > pull -down list in access will also take a long time.
> > > Anyway who reads
> > > > a 20K list?
> > > >
> > > > Which parts of the process are slow? How does the query
> > > perform from
> > > > the mysql command line?
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)
> [mailto:lists@stripped]
> > > > > Sent: 19 August 2003 17:29
> > > > > To: mysql@stripped
> > > > > Subject: Need help optimizing query, awfully slow on
> only 20000
> > > > > records
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 1.2Ghz Pentium, with 1/2Gig of ram, 4.0.14MySQL, RedHat9.0
> > > > >
> > > > > I have about 20K records that result from the following
> > > query. Front
> > > > > end for the database is ACCESS97 and pulling up 20K
> > > records makes a
> > > > > huge performance hit.
> > > > > For the form in question I am using PASSTHROUGH type query
> > > > > (the one that just
> > > > > passes everything straight to server without ODBC).
> > > > > NOTE: souce_for_inquiries_form is the join table and is
> > > > > searchable in the from
> > > > > (it feeds a pull-down list).
> > > > >
> > > > > SELECT inquiries.inquiry_id, inquiries.contact_id,
> > > > > inquiries.indiv_contact_id, inquiries.phone, inquiries.fax,
> > > > > inquiries.agent_id, inquiries.inquiry_date,
> > > > > inquiries.event_type, inquiries.letter_type,
> inquiries.event_date,
> > > > > inquiries.event_date_general, inquiries.event_location,
> > > > > inquiries.guests,
> > > > > inquiries.hours, inquiries.budget,
> inquiries.event_description,
> > > > > inquiries.talent_description, inquiries.past_use,
> > > > > inquiries.referred_by,
> > > > > inquiries.date_sent, inquiries.end_user, inquiries.event_id,
> > > > > inquiries.notes,
> > > > > source_for_inquiries_form.organization,
> > > > > source_for_inquiries_form.mailing_address_1,
> > > > > source_for_inquiries_form.mailing_address_2,
> > > > > source_for_inquiries_form.city,
> > > > > source_for_inquiries_form.state,
> source_for_inquiries_form.zip,
> > > > > source_for_inquiries_form.contact_type,
> > > > > individual_contacts.contact_name_first,
> > > > > individual_contacts.contact_name_last,
> > > > > individual_contacts.contact_prefix,
> > > > > individual_contacts.contact_title, individual_contacts.email
> > > > > FROM inquiries
> > > > > LEFT JOIN individual_contacts ON inquiries.indiv_contact_id =
> > > > > individual_contacts.indiv_contact_id
> > > > > INNER JOIN contacts AS source_for_inquiries_form ON
> > > > > inquiries.contact_id =
> > > > > source_for_inquiries_form.contact_id
> > > > > ORDER BY inquiries.inquiry_id DESC;
> > > > >
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