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Old 10-23-2005
Simon
 
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Default Need to understand INDEX and PKEYS

Hi,

I am not 100% happy with my understanding of indexes and primary keys.

I have a table with ID, Author and Text, (ID is auto increment)

Most of the select I do is "SELECT * from Table where ID = someID"

and then I with the result I do "SELECT Text, Author from Table where Author
= someAuthor"

It all works fine enough, (because I only have 400 records), but I don't
have a primary key or an index.

What primary key/index should I create?

And where could I find a simple tutorial/help on primary keys and indexes to
help me understand them once and for all.

Many thanks

Simon


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