I think I figured it out and it's remarkably simple (almost too simple).

I have two ways of doing it though:

This way seems to perform about 10% faster according to my benchmarks.

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Hello All,

I have 2 data sources. Data source A needs information to be updated on a regular basis. It receives it's updated information from data source B. There are many thousands of records...

Thanks for the response robothy,

I should have stated my problem a little more clearly.

The problem is that the script timeouts before the whole set of data is finished. Also, if I try...

Hi all,

I'm am still learning mysql so please excuse anything I may not understand.

I need to update 12k records in a mysql table (about 5 fields per record) twice a day, and it needs to be...

Thanks. Still though the table would be too large. If 50,000 customers have custom prices for 30 -100 items each, the table would be millions of rows long.

Thanks anyway for the suggestion.

Thanks for the reply fatihpiristine.

There are two problems with that (probably should have mentioned this)

We are talking about 50,000 customers.
There are over 5000 products.


If I...

When you say attach do you mean a link to a word document for download or have it open in the user's browser window?

If it's the former you can just link to the document on the server as...

Blink? What a throwback. Why don't you try the Marquee element.

Just kidding. The "Blink" element was a Netscape element created as a joke I think. It's almost never used anymore and I am not...

Hi All,

Newbie poster here.

I have an, I guess, architectural question. I am still very much a beginner in mysql so bear with me.

I have an e commerce site in which the prices of my products...

We are looking for a savvy PHP developer who is interested in changing the world.

Not really. It's actually for yet another Social Networking Web 2.0 Ajaxified blah blah blah site.

Here are...