Re: atrocious update performance

On 5 Apr 2004 at 12:05, Rosser Schwarz wrote:

> Just this morning, however, I created a copy of the target table (all
> 4.7M rows), with absolutely no foreign keys referring to it, and ran
> the update against the copy.  That update took 2300 seconds.  The
> join columns were indexed in both cases.

Have you added indexes for the custid column for tables account.acct accunt.orgacct
and note?

I haven't followed the entire thread but it you have cascading FK on those tables
without an index on the column that could cause your delay.

Kevin Barnard
SpeedFC