On Tuesday 05 December 2006 3:56 pm, Wei Weng wrote: > I have a table that has roughly 200,000 entries and many columns. > > The query is very simple: > > SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3... FieldN FROM TargetTable; > > TargetTable has an index that is Field1. > > The thing is on this machine with 1Gig Ram, the above query still takes > about 20 seconds to finish. And I need it to run faster, ideally around > 5 seconds. I suspect it's the time needed to ship the data over the wire. Don't forget you're asking for an awful lot of data... > > Wei > jan -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jan de Visser jdevisser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu! --------------------------------------------------------------
