DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test.hits_snippet; set allow_deprecated_syntax_for_merge_tree=1; CREATE TABLE test.hits_snippet(EventTime DateTime('Asia/Dubai'), EventDate Date, CounterID UInt32, UserID UInt64, URL String, Referer String) ENGINE = MergeTree(EventDate, intHash32(UserID), (CounterID, EventDate, intHash32(UserID), EventTime), 8192); SET min_insert_block_size_rows = 0, min_insert_block_size_bytes = 0; SET max_block_size = 4096; INSERT INTO test.hits_snippet(EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, UserID, URL, Referer) SELECT EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, UserID, URL, Referer FROM test.hits WHERE EventDate = toDate('2014-03-18') ORDER BY EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, UserID, URL, Referer ASC LIMIT 50; INSERT INTO test.hits_snippet(EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, UserID, URL, Referer) SELECT EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, UserID, URL, Referer FROM test.hits WHERE EventDate = toDate('2014-03-19') ORDER BY EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, UserID, URL, Referer ASC LIMIT 50; SET min_bytes_to_use_direct_io = 8192; OPTIMIZE TABLE test.hits_snippet; SELECT EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, UserID, URL, Referer FROM test.hits_snippet ORDER BY EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, UserID, URL, Referer ASC; DROP TABLE test.hits_snippet;