Re: keeping last 30 entries of a log table

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:

>> Column id should be indexed indeed.  Anyway, I'm not sure about any 
>> performance improvement using that last method, as the most consuming 
>> operation might be the DELETE operation, not really the SELECT operation, 
>> when dealing with a huge volume of data.
>
> why worry, there are a maximum of 30 Entries in this table anyway. So
> even the most unoptimized select and delete combinations should be
> very fast...

Well, it's 30 entries per account and likely 1000s of accounts, but still that 
would only be 30,000-90,000 entries, so shouldn't be too bad.

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