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MySQL Conference Liveblogging: MySQL Hidden Treasures (Thursday 11:55PM)


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 17th, 2008 in Databases

  • Damien Seguy of Nexen Services presents
  • easiest session of all (phew, that's a relief)
  • clever SQL recipes
  • tweaking SQL queries
  • shows an example where SELECT is ORDERED by a column that is actually an enum.
  • an enum is both a string and a number
  • sorted by number
  • displayed as string
  • can be sorted by string if it's cast as string
  • compact column
    • compacts storage
    • faster to search
    • if (var)char is turned into enum, some space can be saved, shows example
  • random order
    • order by rand(1) – obviously
    • the integer parameter is actually a seed
    • really slow, also obviously, especially for larger tables because it has to order first, then apply rand() to the list
    • another solution is to add an

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