Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!roy From: Roy Smith Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: how to get the ordinal number in list Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:45:15 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <53E658CD.5020904@gmail.com> <53e59035$0$29998$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <338e8fb0-c9ec-462a-b560-1c1ff77de17e@googlegroups.com> <154cc342-7f85-4d16-b636-a1a953913c98@googlegroups.com> <8c41d779-0c26-430a-a915-08c2b962e0e7@googlegroups.com> <53e89063$0$29890$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <53eab595$0$9505$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1407894315 20144 127.0.0.1 (13 Aug 2014 01:45:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:45:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76161 In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > I like to look at SQL as a language that specifies an end result > without specifying how to get there Well, sure, but sometimes the how to get there is a matter of 10x, or 100x, or 1000x in performance. I'm currently migrating a 3 TB database to a new 5 TB RAID array. Our initial guess is it's going to take two weeks to finish :-(