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From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: Why Select Count(*) from table - took over 20 minutes?
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Msg-id 201010261033.51267.ahodgson@simkin.ca
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In response to Why Select Count(*) from table - took over 20 minutes?  (Ozz Nixon <ozznixon@gmail.com>)
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On October 26, 2010 10:18:41 am Ozz Nixon wrote:
> I have hung off indexes for each column, to resolve my previous
> "performance" issue from 3+ weeks ago. However, COUNT() is still dog slow
> - this table is a write once, read many... *never* update, nor delete.
>
> Any suggestions?

If you need to do count(*) on 60 million row tables, you will probably need
faster hardware.

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