Re: name search query speed

Jeremiah Jahn wrote:

>I have about 5M names stored on my DB. Currently the searches are very
>quick unless, they are on a very common last name ie. SMITH. The Index
>is always used, but I still hit 10-20 seconds on a SMITH or Jones
>search, and I average about 6 searches a second and max out at about
>30/s. Any suggestions on how I could arrange things to make this search
>quicker? I have 4gb of mem on a raid 5 w/ 3 drives. I'm hoping that I
>can increase this speed w/o a HW upgrade.
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>thanx,
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It sounds like the problem is just that you have a lot of rows that need
to be returned. Can you just put a limit on the query? And then change
the client app to recognize when the limit is reached, and either give a
link to more results, or refine query, or something like that.

John
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