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Asked: 2026-06-11T02:51:22+00:00

I need to organize a Mysql Database of 7,000,000 records. It needs to be

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I need to organize a Mysql Database of 7,000,000 records. It needs to be queryable by a Lat/Long square, example: 22.54x -134.74x. It also needs to be broken down by month and name. There are about 700 possible names.

I have no clue how to manage all of this data so that someone within that lat/long square can quickly query only the names that exist inside that month and lat/long square.

Do I need 10,000+ tables for every lat/long possibility? Then from there broken down into months and names? My mind is about to explode.

Thanks for your help in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    MySQL offers spatial extensions that are specifically designed to efficiently deal with lat/long type problems.

    If you use these extensions, a given row would contain the relevant latitude and longitude of a place, and the query would describe the geometric boundary that you are interested in.

    Your query can look something along the lines of

    SELECT name, AsText(location) FROM Points 
    WHERE X(location) > 0 AND X(location) < 1 AND
    Y(location) > 38 AND Y(location) < 39

    This would select places whose location (location here is a spatial column in the database) has a longitude between 0 and 1, and a latitude between 38 and 39.

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