mos wrote:
> I have a simple query in MySQL 5.0.24:
>
> insert into table1 (col1) select distinct col1 from bigtable;
>
> that will run for 1:14:18. Both tables are MyISAM and table1 was just
> created with 2 columns and is empty.
>
> The "select distinct col1 from bigtable" takes only 2 minutes to run
> if I run it by itself (without the Insert statement), so why does
> inserting it into Table1 take over an hour? This worked fine under
> MySQL 4.1.10
>
> BigTable has 30 million rows in it and will return approx 7000
> distinct values.
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
>
are your tables indexed? is col1 a primary key? have a look at
optimising the table
HTH
