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Twenty Gig temporary table?
Posted by: John Woodward
Date: May 21, 2018 06:31PM

I used MySQL for a few years a decade ago, but now I'm getting back into it, mostly still playing with the employees sample database. This morning I tried this query:

SELECT
e.last_name,
e.first_name,
e.emp_no,
s.salary
FROM
employees AS e,
salaries AS s
WHERE
e.first_name LIKE '%z%'
OR
e.first_name LIKE '%x%'
ORDER BY
s.salary DESC,
e.last_name
;

The query ran on a Ubuntu netbook and I sat and used Disk Usage Analyzer to watch my available HD space drop from 20.8G to 1.5G, presumably because the temporary file(s) were growing so big. At about 15 minutes, I got:

ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table '/tmp/#sql_3e3_0' is full

I know the employees database is large, but almost 20G of temporary files seems impossibly wrong. Can somebody tell me what I did wrong in the query?

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