>Hi Everybody,
>
>I am trying to speed up a query that I use because it takes around 33 seconds to pull out 8 records from a table that has 24,504 records. Below is the query that I am using:
>SELECT table1.*;
> FROM (tmp_name) table1 ;
> inner JOIN (Alias_Name) table2 ON table1.partno = table2.partno .AND.
> table1.Suppid = table2.Suppid;
> INTO CURSOR tmp_cursor
>
>The structure of table1 is Date D, Suppid C(10), Partno C(17), e_0199 C(10), q_0199 I, etc.
>The structure of table2 is Primekey I, Suppid C(10), Partno C(17), etc.
>I have an index on partno, suppid and partno + suppid on the table1 table.
>
>Please note that table1 is in a FoxPro 2.x data structure and table2 is a free table created on the run.
>
>Thanks,
>Joseph Schaff
Either you are missing and index, or you have an index too many. For instance, how many records match for partno? How many for suppid? Perhaps too many records are fetched (from the index) for one of these expressions.
Hilmar.
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