Hi, I have a (quite) big table with ~3M rows. Every row has a NBPOINTS (int4) and a REASON (int4) select sum(nbpoints) from points; it takes about 10s select sum(nbpoints) from points group by reason it takes about 210s Same table structure, same data on Oracle gives respectively 8 and 22 seconds. Is there a way to optimize this ? (REASON is indexed though I can see no interest in this query.) TIA! -- Jean-Christophe Boggio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Independant Consultant and Developer Delphi, Linux, Oracle, Perl