>Greetings,
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>I've got a pretty serious performance issue with an accounting app (AccPac Manufacturing) utility.
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>I need to query all transaction records for a given work order.
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>Very simple example:
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SELECT * from Wotran01 where wono+STR(tranlineno,4,0) = lcWo into cursor CopyWO


>The problem is that there is no index specifically on wono and with several million records it is dead slow.
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>There is however an index with the following structure: wono+STR(tranlineno,4,0)
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>Because of the size of the table I'd rather not have to make an index specifically on wono unless it is abolutely necessary.
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>So... Is there a way to query these transaction records so that I can get all the records for a cooresponding work order and ignore the tranlineno in the file but still get the benefit from the exiting compound index???
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>Thanks in advance!