>>Thanks for your help.
>>John
>
>What is funny is that I am trying to get my query time donw right now on a very complex, abnoxious query.
>
>Params in are either the SO # or a PO # given by a customer on the phone. I have to pull the most recent status of each line item on the SO, from TIW and present it in a grid.
>
>I tried to use SOMAST, SOTRAN, then tie to TIW data in their SOTRAN. It takes about 2 to 3 min.
>
>I have a flat file {type } that combines somast and sotran. This takes about 2 min at best to get the same data.
>
>This is the best code so far:
>CREATE SQL VIEW "LV_SOTRAN_max" ;
> AS SELECT master2.styledesc, Sotran.sono, max(Sotran.opno) as opno, max(Sotran.t_date) as t_date *,;
> Rodetail.loadcenter ;
> FROM ves!master2 left outer join f:\tiwvan\sotran LEFT OUTER JOIN f:\tiwvan\rodetail ;
> ON Sotran.opno = Rodetail.opno;
> on master2.wono = sotran.sono ;
> WHERE master2.ponum= vp_ponum ;
> AND Rodetail.routeno = "222" ;
> group by 2
>
>Master2 was the flat file and sotran.sono is the work order # in TIW.
>
>Anyone else done this?

Stephen,

TIW has no tags on the OPNO field in either the SOTRAN or in the RODETAIL tables. Maybe you could try adding tags on that field to those tables and see if that helps.