Jason Pruim <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Given the following 2 queries: > > "SELECT DISTINCT areacode FROM main WHERE state = '{$query_exploded[0]}'"; > > "SELECT DISTINCT areacode FROM main"; > > The second displays ALOT faster.... Like by minutes... the first one is what I really want though.... Currently working with a dataset of 89 million records, will be expanding that to many many more times that... To the tune of possibly a couple billion records... > > Any ideas? :) make state an index into the table. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php