Date and Mortgage field are both from TranMstr. I already excluded Lender join from these joins, but it didn't improve the situation. I guess, I would try your advice then, but probably on Monday, because it's hard to tell running it through PCAnywhere.

>Try converting your WHERE clause conditions into JOIN conditions.
>Below is an example (guessing about the appropriate JOIN because you don't qualify the souce tables for the result columns.)
>
>

>SELECT oJC.CurState as State, CMRView.*, Date, Mortgage, Source, ;
>    ParentCode as Lender, extrWeek, extrYear ;
>  FROM TranMstr inner join Lookups!Lender on TranMstr.Lender = Lender.Code ;
>  Inner Join SiteMstr on TranMstr.PropID = SiteMstr.PropID ;
>    and (between(date, {01/01/2001}, {06/30/2001}) ) ;
>  Inner Join CMRView on SiteMstr.town = CMRView.town ;
>    and between(Mortgage, 1, 1000000000)
>  INTO TABLE \redp\work\CMR\CMR
>

>
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I have a query, which executes too long (though I executed it through PCAnywhere, but it should not be a factor here):
>>
>>

SELECT oJC.CurState as State, CMRView.*, Date, Mortgage, Source, ;
>>ParentCode as Lender, extrWeek, extrYear ;
>>FROM TranMstr inner join Lookups!Lender on TranMstr.Lender=Lender.Code ;
>>Inner Join SiteMstr on TranMstr.PropID=SiteMstr.PropID ;
>>Inner Join CMRView on SiteMstr.town=CMRView.town ;
>> where (between(date,ctod('01/01/2001'),ctod('06/30/2001')) ) and between(Mortgage,1,1000000000)  INTO TABLE \redp\work\CMR\CMR_0FE18SEWQ

>>
>>Here is sys(3054) result:
>>

>>
>>Using index tag Date to rushmore optimize table tranmstr
>>Using index tag Mortgage to rushmore optimize table tranmstr
>>Using index tag Deleted to rushmore optimize table tranmstr
>>Rushmore optimization level for table tranmstr: full
>>Using index tag Deleted to rushmore optimize table lender
>>Rushmore optimization level for table lender: full
>>Using index tag Deleted to rushmore optimize table sitemstr
>>Rushmore optimization level for table sitemstr: full
>>Rushmore optimization level for intermediate result: none
>>Joining table tranmstr and table sitemstr using index tag Propid
>>Joining intermediate result and intermediate result using temp index
>>Joining table lender and intermediate result using temp index
>>Selected 13446 records in 368.26 seconds
>>        275
>>        375
>>        475
>>        575
>>        675
>>        775
>>        875
>>        975

>>
>>BTW, what do the numbers (275, 375, etc.) show here?
>>
>>Do you have suggestions to optimize it (don't suggest to drop deleted tags :))?
>>
>>Thanks a lot in advance.