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Long-running tests (Score:1)

by dws (341)

Out of curiousity, do you have some idea why your tests are taking so long to run? Are some of them doing database access?
Neat script, by the way.
- Re:Long-running tests (Score:2)
  
  by Ovid (2709)
  
  Glad you like the script. As for the perfomance problem, try running various combinations of this:
  SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz LIKE '%quux%'
  And do that on huge tables. The LIKE clause negates the use of indices, so I'm not sure how to get around this problem. Unfortunately, due to business requirements, we have this repeatedly. If you have any suggestions ...
  - Re:Long-running tests (Score:1)
    
    by runrig (3385) <dougwNO@SPAMcpan.org> on 2003.04.03 21:15 (#18775) Journal
    
    Unless you can create some sort of full-text search index, you're stuck. Though, depending on the database, you might be able to do a little something on the dba side of things (defragment empty table space, etc.).
    
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