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Help on ORDER BY

From: Terry Somekh <terry_at_memco.co.il>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:22:48 +0200
Message-ID: <752eba$oq8$1@news.ibm.net.il>


Hello,

    I have a table with a unique index defined on the column 'entryid' and a non unique index defined on the column 'timstamp'.

If I do

     select * from table order by entryid it works very fast.

If I do

     select * from table order by timstamp it takes about 4 minutes to get the first record on a 100,000 records table.

Any ideas ?

Terry Received on Mon Dec 14 1998 - 01:22:48 CST

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