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Re: How do I avoid "Using file sort" and "Using temporary"
Posted by: Jay Pipes
Date: March 07, 2006 11:42AM

Solon,

I'm not sure you can anything about getting rid of the Using temporary and Using filesort in your current schema. I do, however, think you would get significantly better performance if you weren't trying to group on a VARCHAR(100) field. Have you considered putting the page_type in a lookup table, and joining using a TINYINT field? It would cut the space used by the index, and subsequently, the time neededto process the index records in the group, considerably.

Consider a schema change of:

CREATE TABLE page_type (
page_type_id TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT
, description VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL
, PRIMARY KEY pk_PageTypes (page_type_id)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

INSERT INTO page_type (page_type_id, description)
VALUES (1,'None')
,(2,'Products Page')
,(3,'Touchpoint Portal')
,(4,'White Paper');

ALTER TABLE page_dim ADD COLUMN page_type_id TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL;

LOCK TABLES page_dim WRITE:

UPDATE page_dim SET page_type_id=1 WHERE page_type='';
UPDATE page_dim SET page_type_id=2 WHERE page_type='Products Page';
UPDATE page_dim SET page_type_id=3 WHERE page_type='Touchpoint Portal';
UPDATE page_dim SET page_type_id=4 WHERE page_type='White Paper';

UNLOCK TABLES;

ALTER TABLE page_dim DROP INDEX ON (page_type);
ALTER TABLE page_dim DROP COLUMN page_type;

OPTIMIZE TABLE page_dim;

CREATE INDEX ix_page_type ON page_dim (page_type_id);

ANALYZE TABLE page_dim;

Then, re-run your group by expression.

Jay Pipes
Community Relations Manager, North America, MySQL Inc.

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