Was the previous output sorted with the -r flag though?
No.
There's no trick, it's the same as in any language: find out what the
slow parts are by using a profiler and tinker with them until they are
faster.
You can look at the tuning information on http://modperlbook.org/ for
some advice as well. And don't forget that there is a profiler for DBI
queries that comes with DBI.
I've done the database profiling as well...
Thanks for your help...
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