On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:04:01PM +0200, Ben-Nes Yonatan wrote: > Hi All, > > I got a table with about 4.5 millions rows in it which is connected to > another table with about 60 millions rows which are used as keywords for > searching. > > I succeded to create fast queries on the first table that finds a row at > the first table which is connected to up to 4 diffrent keywords at the > second table and LIMIT the result to 12 (I want to allow the surfers of > the site to press back and next to see more products so ill make it with > OFFSET). > > I want to be able to order my result by a specific column but when I > insert ORDER BY into the query (and any other query that I tried) it > becomes extremly slow, what can I do to solve this problem? Your question is too generic to answer specifically, but I suspect that if you use your un-ordered query as a subquery in the FROM clause and then order that it will work well. IE: SELECT * FROM (SELECT ...) a ORDER BY f1, f2, f3 -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings