Well, it's an InnoDb database and has some decent memory pools. | innodb_additional_mem_pool_size | 33554432
| innodb_buffer_pool_size | 536870912 -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Bueno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:47 AM To: Nathan Cassano Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Select distinct speed on an indexed column Since your primary key is used, maybe you should consider adding an index on PostedZpdi field only. You may also check 'key_buffer_size' value (show variables like 'key%'). Since your primary key is more than 200 MB big, allocating a "big" key buffer (> 256MB) may help. Joseph Bueno -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]