Re: query speed issues

2001-03-16 Thread
If you are repeatedly querying tables on non-key fields you can improve query speeds by implementing indexes on those fields... For instance, if you had a personnel table with the following fields: id, lastname, firstname, etc Where id was an auto-increment,primary key you could index the

query speed issues

2001-03-16 Thread Dacian Herbei
Hi, I have some huge databases generated from text file of a dictionary. I would like to know if I make a query based on a field which was not metion as a key at the creation of the table. Is the speed of the query affected by the size of the records and by the number of fields a rec