What does

  EXPLAIN SELECT * from rec where string_field='somestring';

say?

Michael

Dan Sashko wrote:

hi i have a recordset of about 4 mil records,

SELECT * from rec where string_field="somestring"

takes very long time (30+ sec).  string_field is indexed MUL.  Is there way to 
make it faster?



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