I have a huge table, but I know in most cases, only a small portion of the data are used for a query. Is there a way to make MySQL only lookup this small portion? Does “view” help in this case?
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I have a huge table, but I know in most cases, only a small portion of the data are used for a query. Is there a way to make MySQL only lookup this small portion? Does “view” help in this case?
Simply read this article – http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/optimization.html
Optimize indexes, statements/clauses, caching and server itself.