Re: [PHP] Best practices for using MySQL index

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Aschwin Wesselius <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Shelley wrote:
>
>  Don't index just all integer fields. Keep track of the cardinality of a
> column. If you expect a field to have 100.000 records, but with only 500
> distinct values it has no use to put an index on that column. A full record
> search is quicker.
>
>
>     Hmmm... That's new. :)
>
>
>
> Well, to give you a good measure: keep the cardinality between 30 to 70-80
> percent of your total records in a column. But sometimes your field is NULL
> or empty, so it really depends. You can't just put it into a standard
> configuration. And it also really depends on how many records a table
> contains etc.
>
> Besides that, benchmarking your development environment (you do have one
> do you?) can gives you a good idea on how your hardware and setup performs.
>
I think I missed that part. For I am concerning query, index, and entity
design most of the time.

>
>
> Aschwin Wesselius
>



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Regards,
Shelley