>Hi all
>
>I have a piece of SQL that really needs to be performed quicker, I have 2 tables:
>
>Person
>Referral
>
>Person has a date of birth and I am fetching all persons who were under 18 on their first referral, here is the SQL:
>
>

>select *;
>  from person p
> inner join referral r on p.cl_ref = r.cl_ref and !empty(r.re_date);
>      where gomonth(p.cl_dob, 216) > (select min(rr.re_date) from referral rr;
>                                             where rr.cl_ref = p.cl_ref and !empty(rr.re_date))
>

>
>According to Fox none of this is optimised, both cl_ref fields on each table are indexed.
>
>Can anyone suggest an alternative that may be quicker - or is there anything else I could do to speed up the query?
>
>Thanks
>Kev

How about:

select *;
      from person
      inner join (SELECT cl_ref, MIN(re_date) AS Re_Date;
                         FROM referral;
                         GROUP BY cl_ref;
                         WHERE NOT EMPTY(re_date)) Rr;
     ON person.cl_ref = Rr.cl_ref
     WHERE p.cl_dob <= GOMONTH(Rr.Re_Date,-216)

But it depends what indexes you have in both tables.