mysql> desc content;

+---------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |

+---------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

| cid | int(11) | NO | | 0 | |

| aid | int(11) | YES | | NULL | |

| content | mediumtext | YES | | NULL | |

+---------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

3 rows in set (0.02 sec)

mysql> select count(*) from content;

+----------+

| count(*) |

+----------+

| 208081 |

+----------+

1 row in set (0.05 sec)

更新为INNODB.

mysql> alter table content engine innodb;

Query OK, 208081 rows affected (2 min 19.80 sec)

Records: 208081 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysql> select count(*) from content;

+----------+

| count(*) |

+----------+

| 208081 |

+----------+

1 row in set (33.99 sec)

新建立一个表专门存储记录的多少。如果要存放多个表的记录数目，以后增加相应的字段就可以了。

create table t_count (count_content int not null default 0);

insert into t_count(count_content) select count(*) from content;

DELIMITER $$

CREATE TRIGGER `tr_count_insert` AFTER INSERT on `content`

FOR EACH ROW BEGIN

  update t_count set count_content = count_content + 1;

END$$

DELIMITER ;

DELIMITER $$

CREATE TRIGGER `tr_count_delete` AFTER DELETE on `content`

FOR EACH ROW BEGIN

  update t_count set count_content = count_content - 1;

END$$

DELIMITER ;

这样虽然对数据更新操作有性能上的影响，不过查询速度就非常快了。因为这个表无论如何只有一条记录。

mysql> delete from content limit 1;

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.06 sec)

mysql> select count(*) from content;

+----------+

| count(*) |

+----------+

| 208080 |

+----------+

1 row in set (37.79 sec)

mysql> select count_content from t_count;

+---------------+

| count_content |

+---------------+

| 208080 |

+---------------+

1 row in set (0.01 sec)