> The bottleneck in the
> whole process is actually counting each data point (how many times a
> url was visited, or how many times a url referred the user to the
> website). So more specifically I am wondering if there is way to store
> and retrieve the data such that it speeds up the counting of the
> statistics.
This is misleading, the counting is being done by perl. so what is
happening is that I am locating all of the rows via a cursor and then
calculating the stats using perl hashes. no counting is being in the
DB. maybe it would be much faster to count in the db somehow?
exty