Re: Slow multi-column index

2001-10-24 Thread Philip White
So, is it *really* the variable length row lookup that's taking all the time here ? I don't see how. 18000 record is nothing and varchar searches are pretty fast. On top of that, you first search is on the date which would be extremelly fast and narrow the next searches to many less

Re: Slow multi-column index

2001-10-24 Thread DL Neil
Hi Phil, I suspect you have already answered your own question! Warning: high ignorance factor - am currently researching indexes for myself - if I can't figure it out for myself, you can help me with that later... When the SELECT can, it will answer a query from a scan-of/data-retrieval-from

RE: Slow multi-column index

2001-10-24 Thread Steve Meyers
I'm wondering whether this has something to do with the following words of wisdom in the reference manual: For tables that changes a lot you should try to avoid all VARCHAR or BLOB columns. You will get dynamic row length as soon as you are using a single VARCHAR or BLOB columns. but I