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Help Optimizing My SELECT Query
Posted by: gooey graphics
Date: July 19, 2010 12:54PM

I need help making my query more efficient. My host just suspended me because I'm using too many resources on the server and affecting other customers.

My problem is, I have a db with approx. 10k rows. something like this:

userid score
user1 14000
user99 300
...


I need to select the top 500 scores and return 'userid' and 'score' columns.

The way I am doing it now (apologize can't login to my acct and get the command i'm using) is:

SELECT * from `players` ORDER BY 'score' ASC (something to that effect)

After researching i think LIMIT will work but i'm not sure if that will return the first 500 rows or the 'TOP' 500 rows???
How can I do this more efficiently instead of returning all 10k rows?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/19/2010 12:56PM by gooey graphics.

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