At 10:19 AM 8/9/2007, you wrote:
If your database file is less than the size of your RAM,
then do this before the create index to speed it up:

  cat your.db > /dev/null

See also:

  PRAGMA cache_size = number-of-pages;

and

  PRAGMA page_size = bytes; -- recommend at least 8192

http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html


Using Windows XP.  :-0

Mike


--- mos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm building my first index on a large table using the "Create index
> ix_Main on Table1(StringField1,StringField2,DateField,TimeField)" and so
> far it has been running over an hour on a fast computer with 2gb ram. There > are 15 million rows in the table. The same index can be built in MySQL in a
> minute or two. Why does it take so long?




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