From: Martijn Tonies
Date: December 9 2003 9:32am
Subject: Re: Re[2]: key is not used
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Hi Corin,

As I said - I don't have the slightest idea about the MySQL optimizer,
but I'm trying to learn.

> thanks for your fast reply. even when i use
> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM `actions` ORDER BY datum LIMIT 10
> the key isn't used. the query takes about 2s :-(

What if you do:

SELECT ... WHERE DATUM < some-value

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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