On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:35:50AM +0100, Cao Duy wrote: > here is my simple select-statement: > SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE CUSTOMER_ID=5 It seems like you're missing an index on customer_id. Set it to PRIMARY KEY or do an explicit CREATE INDEX (followed by an ANALYZE) and it should be a lot faster. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/