Seriously, WTF?

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:05:32PM +0100, Christopher Jones wrote:

> I have a relatively simple table with approximately 100 million rows  
> of data, and query times suck. I'd be interested to know whether  
> anyone thinks this is good, acceptable/normal, or bad;
> 
> mysql> select * from histones where chr='1' and location > 10000 and  
> location < 20000;
> ...
> 7 rows in set (3 min 39.94 sec)

Do you have indices on the chr and location fields?

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