At 01:00 AM 7/22/2002 +0200, you wrote: >>Not all joins take ages - the trick is to know not only the tables but >>also the indexes and use them.
It's important to realize that some of the tables that you can issue 'select' statements on are not actual tables in the database, but are rather constructed on the fly. The 'select' statement is a convenient way to get at the data in the database.
