I am trying to understand something I have seen happen. I had a select that looked like:
select f(A) from A, B, C where g(A) Where f(A) is the select that only depends on table A; g(A) is the where part that only depends on table A. What I saw happen was the optimizer will waste a lot of time (seconds!) bringing in table B and C. I was wondering why doesn't the optimizer drop references to tables B and C since they aren't used any where? Peace and thanks in advance Chuck Wegrzyn ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly