[CentOS] OT: MySQL Help

Wed May 10 04:05:13 UTC 2006
Thomas E Dukes <edukes at alltel.net>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mike Kercher
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:17 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: [CentOS] OT: MySQL Help
> 
> centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Tuesday, May 09, 
> 2006 8:57 PM:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
> >> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Alan Sparks
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:37 PM
> >> To: CentOS mailing list
> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: MySQL Help
> >> 
> >> Thomas E Dukes wrote:
> >>> I ran the following against a table:
> >>> 
> >>> ALTER TABLE `products` ADD INDEX `idx_products_model` ( 
> >>> `products_model` );
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Can this index be removed?  If so, how?
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Maybe
> >> DROP INDEX `idx_products_model`
> >> or
> >> ALTER TABLE `products` DROP INDEX `idx_products_model`
> > 
> > Thanks for the help.  Wasn't sure if 'DROP' was what I 
> needed to use.  
> > I'm not that MySQL savy.  I was following a suggestion to 
> speed up a 
> > process.
> > The problems I'm having aren't in the same table and I was was just 
> > trying to cover any changes since the problems began.
> > 
> > I ran mysqlcheck on the database and got an OK on all tables.
> >  Must be something else.
> > 
> > Thanks!!
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration
> 
> Are you running mysql-4.x?  If so, you might consider using 
> the caching features of 4.x+  It has helped some of my mysql 
> intensive sites quite a bit.
> 
> Mike

Hello Mike,

Yes, I'm still running 4.1.12-3  I was hoping to speed things up by adding
the index to that table.

I'm not too mysql savy as I said before.  How do I set up the caching?

Thanks
> 
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