Re: Anything I can do to speed up this query?

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 3:56 pm, Wei Weng wrote:
> I have a table that has roughly 200,000 entries and many columns.
>
> The query is very simple:
>
> SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3... FieldN FROM TargetTable;
>
> TargetTable has an index that is Field1.
>
> The thing is on this machine with 1Gig Ram, the above query still takes
> about 20 seconds to finish. And I need it to run faster, ideally around
> 5 seconds.

I suspect it's the time needed to ship the data over the wire. Don't forget
you're asking for an awful lot of data...

>
> Wei
>

jan

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