> Now that I know what's causing the slow queries, what can I do to fix it?
The only thing I can suggest is breaking up the query into two parts - the first part to retrieve just the product codes and salesrank, and sort and limit that.. save in a temp table or use application code to retrieve and print the rest of the product info. Sorting 300,000+ records in that huge result set is going to take some time (although it shouldn't take 10 minutes). -Hank -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]