Dear all,

I have a doubt regarding fetching data from large tables.
I need to fetch selected columns from a 90Gb Table & 5Gb index on it.

CREATE TABLE `content_table` (
`c_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`link_level` tinyint(4) DEFAULT NULL,
`u_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
`heading` varchar(150) DEFAULT NULL,
`category` varchar(150) DEFAULT NULL,
`c_url` varchar(500) NOT NULL,
`keywords` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL,
`dt_stamp` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
`content` mediumtext,
PRIMARY KEY (`c_id`),
KEY `idx_url` (`c_url`),
KEY `idx_head` (`heading`),
KEY `idx_dtstamp` (`dt_stamp`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

Now I need to select distict category from content_table of size 90Gb.

Simple select command can take days to complete & I donot think creating
index on that column is a good idea.
Please let me know any ideas to do that.

Thanks

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