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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:42:22+00:00

How do I efficiently sort videos that users have uploaded? I am storing the

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How do I efficiently sort videos that users have uploaded?

I am storing the actual videos in a separate file, and their info in a MySQL database.

Say I want to sort by “date uploaded”, how do I go about doing this?

I have a column for date uploaded. There could potentially be millions of records to sort, but I will only probably display the top 10 on the website.

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    Say I want to sort by “date uploaded”

    SELECT * FROM video ORDER BY date_uploaded DESC LIMIT 10;

    It’s better and faster to just select the fields you need: 

    SELECT filenames FROM video ORDER BY date_uploaded DESC LIMIT 10;

    Make sure you put an index on date_uploaded.
    If you use InnoDB, put an index on filenames as well, because then InnoDB can use a covering index and does not need to read the database itself.

    Links:
    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/select.html
    http://php.about.com/od/mysqlcommands/g/Limit_sql.htm
    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-indexes.html
    http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/11/23/covering-index-and-prefix-indexes/

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