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What can I do to make mysql use the expected indices?

What can I do to make mysql use the expected indices? I've got 4 tables, two containing resources, and the others containing historical changes. One pair uses indexes correctly, the other doesn't, ...
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Primary Key efficiency

If I need a table to hold Point of Sales transactions, and am told I need to store: Country ID Store Number POS Terminal Number Transaction Date Item Code Teller ID Another Field More Fields Now, ...
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Multiple primary keys

I am new to database design and have been looking at some example data models here. One thing I don't understand is if you have a table like client_addresses from the link above: ...
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Index Key Column Order

I have created a joining table for many-to-many relationship. The table only has 2 cols in it, ticketid and groupid typical data would be groupid ticketid 20 56 20 87 20 ...
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Sequential GUID or bigint for 'huge' database table PK

I know this type of question comes up a lot, but I've yet to read any compelling arguments to help me make this decision. Please bear with me! I have a huge database - it grows by about 10,000,000 ...
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How to alter primary key constraint for 2 columns in same table in SQL Server?

In SQL Server, I already created a table called tblDatabase with some columns. I want to add a primary key on the two columns DatabaseName and Servername. I tried to add: ALTER TABLE tblDatabase ...
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SQL - double column used from primary key with autoincrement

I am user the following as primary key in the SqlDB: I am doing the Index as Autoincrement, but it is autoincremented in general not per user. Example userid=1,index=1, then insert another for ...
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performance of multi field primary key or 'contrived' 'semi artificial' key

This is not a question regarding the benefits or otherwise of using an artificial auto increment key in any given table against using a multi-field 'primary key'. That discussion (or argument) can ...
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Can I use a Clob as a table key (from Java)?

Following a suggestion made to another question to store large amounts of text: can one use a CLOB as primary key field (i.e., from Java's DataNucleus implementation of JDO)? I know it is probably a ...
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How is INDEX on Composite Primary Key in mysql?

When making a composite primary key for two or more columns, e.g. PRIMARY KEY(col1, col2, col3); will the system INDEX each column individually? The reason that I am asking this question is that when ...
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Two-sided UNIQUE INDEX for two columns

Creating a table with composite PRIMARY KEY or using UNIQUE INDEX for two columns guarantee uniqueness of col1, col2. Is there a tricky approach to make the reverse order of two columns UNIQUE too ...
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“on duplicate key update” all the non-key fields mentioned in the insert

How can I update the field values mentioned in the insert portion without listing them again in the on duplicate key update portion? insert into tablename set keyname = 'keyvalue', fieldname = ...
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Is index_type ignored on MySQL primary keys in create table?

I have seen a create table whose primary key had an identifier where it should have an index_type, something like that: create table a (foo INTEGER, PRIMARY KEY foo_id (foo)); The thing is that ...
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serial field issue

Q: I use a serial as a datatype for my primary keys in my tables. I insert a lot of data then truncate these data one after one many times to test the data entry. My question is: Is there any ...
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Is it require to fill all tables inside of the database?

Now,I created upper that table and in order to test I will give 3 textboxes values as below. SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand ("Insert Into dbo.PrnInf(PrnName, PrnSurName, PrnEgn ) Values ...
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Why do primary keys have names of their own?

From a mathematical view, granted that a table has at most one primary key, it seems to be a shortsighted design decision to refer to primary keys by some arbitrary name instead of a simple table ...