• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I run queries throughout the day that can return 8 million+ rows easily. Granted, it takes few minutes to run, but it has never caused a single issue with overheating even on slim pc’s.

    This makes no fucking sense. 60k rows would return in a flash even on shitty hardware. And if it taxes anything, it’s gonna be the ram or cpu- not the hard drive.

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      8 hours ago

      In my experience, the only time that I’ve taxed a drive when doing a database query is either when dumping it, or with SQLite’s vacuum, which copies the whole thing.

      For a pretty simple search like OP seems to be doing, the indices should have taken care of basically all the heavy lifting.