Hi Mike,

Yes I can and I have by introducing a dummy where clause. It optimises and halves the time roughly 2 seconds.

It would appear optimisation is the real issue. I can live with the slight difference, and I am hoping the customer will be happy with that.

Cheers!

Mathias
>Hi Mathias
>
>>Hi All,
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>>I have had reports and a colleague has confirmed that a query takes significantly longer if the table being queried is open shared so:
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>>Select a.* from Customer a Into Cursor curCustomer where ??? && takes 2 seconds when I am the only user in the system
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>>The same query takes 5 seconds if the table customer is open by another user.
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>>No views involved
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>>Any ideas please?
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>I just tried a small experiment. Querying a million record table for 10,000 results over the network - only me using the table .591 seconds. With a second user, .7 seconds. Of course my query is fully optimized. Caching will play a role.
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>I would point out, that testing single user access versus multi-user access is not the issue. Most of the time, there will be multi-user access. The issue then is, can you get the query time down from 5 seconds at all?