Thanks to everyone who responded.

On 02/08/2020, Marco Manyevere <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As far as I can see, the entire table will always be scanned in this case.
> This is one situation in which a prior analysis of the range arguments may
> be helpful. Assuming that you are doing this inside a subroutine, it may be
> worthwhile to check the difference between start and end dates (in this
> case 4385 inclusive). Form an active list with all possible Ids, then do
> the select on top of the active list. Instead of scanning the entire table,
> your select will be limited to testing only the 4,385 out of 340,000 record
> keys. Note that if the number of days in the range was only 10 for example,
> the regular select would still take the same time as when the range
> contains 10,000 days but with the active list technique it would return
> almost instantaneously. The difference in performance will become very
> noticeable for a table with millions of records with a unique account
> portion of the Id and when we know from the business logic that date range
> can never exceed some relatively small number.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 17:15 VK <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi coleagues.
>>
>> What is the fastest way to SELECT a set of records from a J4 table:
>>
>> @IDs are in the format: (account_number)-(date_in_internal_format), e.g.
>> 5001-18628.
>>
>> trying:
>>
>> SELECT THE.TABLE WITH @ID BETWEEN "5001-18628" "5001-23012"
>>
>> Result is bit more than a second (Windows 2019 server, enough memory and
>> CPUs). Maybe it can be improved?
>>
>> usr: 1.11   sys: 0.00   elapsed: 0m1.11s
>>
>> Usage of "GE ... LE" didn't help:
>>
>> usr: 1.36   sys: 0.00   elapsed: 0m1.36s
>>
>> Records number: circa 340,000.
>>
>> Resizing didn't help.
>>
>> Conversion to JR, as expected, made things a bit worse.
>>
>> Thought about year-based distribution but haven't given it a try yet.
>>
>> Last question - is jBASE indexing stable enough to be trusted?
>>
>> TAFC 13 (no, question isn't about T24!)
>>
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