>I have a two table join, one table (table1) holds only a record an the other (table2) holds 400.000 records, the match give me 400 records. The index are three numerical on both tables and the DELETED().
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>Why if I index with a SET COLLATE TO "GENERAL" is faster (very far away) than if I do a SET COLLATE TO "MACHINE". I thought that MACHINE would be always faster than GENERAL?

Hola Pablo,

You don't tell us the whole story. If you want to change the collating sequence of an index, you first have to destroy it, then recreate if with the sequence you want. What happens when you do this?

José