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Asked: 2026-06-02T15:38:24+00:00

I am developing a website and got a database where people can insert data

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I am developing a website and got a database where people can insert data (votes). I want to keep a counter in the header like “x” votes have been cast. But it is possible that there will be a lot of traffic on the website soon. Now I can do it with the query 

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `tblvotes

and then display number in the header, but then every time the users changes page, it will redo the query, so I am thinking, maybe it is better to the query once every 30 sec (so much less load on the mysql server) but then I need to save the output of it to some place (this shouldn’t be so hard; I can write it to a textfile?) But how can I let my website automatically every 30 sec run the query and put the number in the file. I got no SSH to the server so I can t crontab it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Crontabs can only run every minute, at its fastest.

    I think there is a better solution to this. You should make an aggregate table in which the statistical information is stored.

    With a trigger on the votes_table, you can do ‘something’ every time the table receives a INSERT statement.

    The aggregate table will then store the most accurate information, which you then can query to display the count.

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