Hello, ok, I guess I need to create a DESC index on TIMESTAMP of MY_TABLE. I could verify this speeds it up from 1 minute to 1 second. This works as long as MY_TABLE is a real table. But now MY_TABLE is actually a View.
Can I created a index on a view with firebird? BR Matthias On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:32 PM Matthias Winkler <spmm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I guess this is another beginners question: > > I have a table with 300`000 entries. > Each row has a separate field TIMESTAMP with its creation data. > Now, I query the latest 100 hundred using: > > select first(100) X, Y, TIMESTAMP > from MY_TABLE > order by TIMESTAMP DESC -- order by takes all the time > > This query takes over a minute. > Is there a way to speed this up? > > Background: Infact, the next one hundred are queried remotely by the > server and due to the long processing time my connections times out .... > > Any ideas? > > BR > > Matthias > > >
