Question

I have a basic blog MySql table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `blogs` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `blogText` text NOT NULL,    
  `allowcomment` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) 

I want to keep track of how may times I query each row. Basically keeping tracks of view. I really don’t want to create a table to keep track of IP address and insert an Ip address and blogs.id as a unique key. Then count number of unique keys in that table.

I want to be as efficient and accurate as possible.

Answer 1

you need to create a new table or column for keeping count. and use a trigger to update count after each select query. That is the way to do, I think.