From: <jeffrey_n_Dyke@Keane.com> > I have two tables and am running a simple join between them to get > questions and their repsective response averages from a survey. The > question table has 49 rows and the Response table has 126,732. I'd like to > cut down on the time its taking to run this specific query...as i'll be > running many like it to generate reports. The query below is the selecting > the most data, normally this will be limited to specific groups by joining > more tables. > > I am executing the following query > SELECT Question.Text_Long, AVG( Response ) FROM `Response` INNER JOIN > Question ON Question.Question_Key = Response.Question_Key WHERE > Question.Question_Key LIKE '2003%' GROUP BY Response.Question_Key ORDER BY > Question.Question_Key ASC What does EXPLAIN tell you for this query? Is it using your indexes? ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php