If you are repeatedly querying tables on non-key fields you can improve query speeds
by implementing indexes on those fields...
For instance, if you had a personnel table with the following fields: id, lastname,
firstname, etc.... Where id was an auto-increment,primary key you could index the
lastname field to aid queries based upon last names.
Dacian Herbei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Hi,
> I have some huge databases generated from text file of a dictionary.
> I would like to know if I make a query based on a field which was not metion as
>a key
> at the creation of the table. Is the speed of the query affected by the size of the
> records and by the number of fields a record has?
> best regards,
> dacian
>
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