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Re: Optimize multiple writes on the same row
Posted by: Rick James
Date: March 15, 2012 10:41AM

One thought...
Write an "UPDATE" TRIGGER on the 'fact' (million-row) table. It would add NEW.val - OLD.val to a sum column in another table (perhaps only 1 row). (Do all of the updates in a single UPDATE in the TRIGGER.)
Then your 'report' SQL would hit only this new table.

Write an "INSERT" TRIGGER also. It would do similar things, but also modify the 'count' field in the secondary table.

Note: Do not keep an 'average' field; instead, always recompute it (sum/count). Standard deviation can be done if you keep three totals: count, sum, and sum of squares.

Median is actually possible, but tricky.

I am assuming that the complexity of this scheme would be less costly (on performance) than repeatedly scanning a million rows.

How often do UPDATEs come in? How often for INSERTs? And DELETEs?

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