Kevin --

Sometimes, in a data driven situation like this, one query won't work equally well for all the various combinations of data.

Have you considered generating SQL on the fly, depending on the actual values available to you? That may give you the best performance under any circumstance.

Jay

>HI
>
>I want to run a SELECT Statement from 2 tables like this:
>
>SELECT *;
> FROM Table1 ;
>LEFT OUTER JOIN Table2;
>ON Table1.Key = Table2.Key;
>WHERE Table1.Field = cValue;
> AND Table2.Field = cValue2
>
>The only problem, is that this isn't optimised if I only populate cValue2.
>
>Any ideas on how I can speed this up?
>
>Thanks
>Kev