On 5 Apr 2004 at 12:05, Rosser Schwarz wrote: > Just this morning, however, I created a copy of the target table (all > 4.7M rows), with absolutely no foreign keys referring to it, and ran > the update against the copy. That update took 2300 seconds. The > join columns were indexed in both cases.
Have you added indexes for the custid column for tables account.acct accunt.orgacct and note? I haven't followed the entire thread but it you have cascading FK on those tables without an index on the column that could cause your delay. Kevin Barnard SpeedFC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match