Question about search speed

[Ivan Smahin]

On Jan 28, 2013, at 3:33 PM, jda <jda at his.com> wrote:

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> I have a built-in search that finds the last 20 records entered. Each record has a unique sequential number (1..N) in the field "id", and this is the query:
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>     SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE id > (select max(id) - 20 from mytable)
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> It works, but is very slow. With a database of ~7000 records it takes ~20 seconds.
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> Is there a way to optimize this (using V4.9.1, Mac OS X).
> 


Thinking more of this ...
Is ID field indexed?
Could you send me that db to test it here?

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Ivan Smahin
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Paradigma Software, Inc
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