Hi Everybody,

I need to speed up a query that I use because it takes around 26 seconds to pull out 32 records from a table that has 26,896 records. Below is the query that I am using:

*-- This Query takes 26 seconds for 32 records
SELECT table1.*;
FROM (tmp_name) table1 ;
inner JOIN (cAliasName) table2 ON table1.partno == table2.partno .AND. table1.Suppid == table2.Suppid;
INTO CURSOR tmp_cursor

*-- This Query takes .3 seconds for 64 records
SELECT table1.*;
FROM (tmp_name) table1 ;
inner JOIN (cAliasName) table2 ON table1.partno == table2.partno;
INTO CURSOR tmp_cursor

*-- This Query takes 1.06 seconds for 1296 records
SELECT table1.*;
FROM (tmp_name) table1 ;
inner JOIN (cAliasName) table2 ON table1.Suppid == table2.Suppid;
INTO CURSOR tmp_cursor

The structure of table1 (tmp_name) is Date D, Suppid C(10), Partno C(17), e_0199 C(10), q_0199 I, etc.

The structure of table2 (cAliasName) is Primekey I, Zipfield C(27), 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 Visual FoxPro 5.0a data structure and table2 is a free table created on the run. I have also tried creating indexs on partno, suppid and partno + suppid on the table2 table.

Thanks,
Joseph Schaff