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[jsiegel1 at optonline.net]

You're the second person who suggested this so...if I "design by consensus" this seems to be the way to go. 

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: Kerem Tuzemen <keremtuzemen at hotmail.com>
Date: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:36 am
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] MySQL & 2.5 million rows!

> Hey Jeff
> 
> Why don't you put all of the data into the same table and add a 
> smallintfield to keep the status of a particular record (i.e. 
> showing which group it
> belongs)? If needed, you can make it 2 or 3 different fields. That way
> you'll have just one table and if I'm not missing something, it 
> should work
> pretty fast compared to your 3 table structure.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jsiegel1 at optonline.net>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:24 AM
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] MySQL & 2.5 million rows!
> 
> 
> > You read the subject line correctly!!! I'm loading 2.5 million 
> rows from
> an ASCII file into a MySQL database. So...here's a little 
> background on what
> I've done and then a question. (Please keep in mind I'm a Php/MySQL
> newbie...though I'm learnin' fast!!)
> >
> > I created three tables - data_new, data_old, data_live. The 
> Ascii file
> gets read, line by line, and inserted into data_new. When it's 
> completed and
> there are no glitches (i.e., no problem with the Ascii file), I 
> want to move
> the data from data_live to data_old and then move the new data 
> from data_new
> to data_live. So...the question...is there a fast way to move the 
> data from
> one MySQL table to another (from data_new to data_live) other than 
> walkingthrough data_new row by row...creating an Insert statement 
> on the fly...and
> then inserting the row into data_live?
> >
> > BTW, in case you are wondering why there are three different 
> tables, I
> felt that this was a better way  than my client's present system which
> simply wipes out the live data and then reads in the Ascii file. 
> If there is
> a glitch then they have to empty the table and reload the Ascii. 
> Doing it
> this way, if they need to go back to the old data, I would move it 
> data from
> data_old to data_live.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
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