[firebird-support] Problem with sub-optimal query plan

2015-02-03 Thread Fulvio Senore mail...@fsoft.it [firebird-support]
I have a database containing(simplifyinga little) a CUSTOMERS table andan INVOICES table. INVOICES contains a foreign key to CUSTOMERS, as you can expect. I want to retrieve rows showing INVOICES data and some CUSTOMERS data so I use an inner join, and I want to see newer invoices first so I

Re: [firebird-support] Problem with sub-optimal query plan

2015-02-03 Thread Tim Ward t...@telensa.com [firebird-support]
You could try an outer join ... mucky in the extreme but it sometimes forces the optimiser to look at the sane table first ... (yes I know one shouldn't have to do that sort of thing). On 03/02/2015 12:17, Fulvio Senore mail...@fsoft.it [firebird-support] wrote: I have a database

Re: [firebird-support] Problem with sub-optimal query plan

2015-02-03 Thread Ann Harrison aharri...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
On Feb 3, 2015, at 8:17 AM, Fulvio Senore mail...@fsoft.it [firebird-support] firebird-support@yahoogroups.com wrote: I want to retrieve rows showing INVOICES data and some CUSTOMERS data so I use an inner join, and I want to see newer invoices first so I add an ORDER BY clause. I only