Hello there, i have a short question ... I have a few tables (at the moment "only" 3 for testing), over which will by made a query in this form: SELECT a.orderitem_id, a.transaction_id, a.order_id, a.shop_id, a.quantity, a.price, b.affiliate_id, c."type" FROM ss_order_orderitems a LEFT JOIN ss_order_affiliate_tracking b ON a.order_id = b.order_id, ss_shops c WHERE (a.order_id = b.order_id OR b.order_id IS NULL) AND a.shop_id = c.shop_id; The query will get later a few more conditions ... Now is the problem, that the performance is not realy good ... and i think about the best solution for such a query and found three possibilitys: 1. a simple select over the three tables (one of them contains 160000 entrys in the moment and it's growing) in the form like above (the db is mysql 4.1.x) I think this solution is not very perfomant ... 2. move the data to a postgresql-db with the same structur and create a view, wich makes the same query ... Is the performance for the same query different between a simple select and a view!? If so, i can forget the view ... 3. put the data with the above query in one big table ... I know, thats no good db-structur, but i don't know how i could make it better ... The main-question at the moment iss ... Is the performance of the View-Method better then the first Method on the existing tables!? I hope of a view hints ... Thanks Steffen ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly