Jonas Sandman wrote: > But I guess the answer is that only the "where" parts should be > indexed, not the id's in the joins?
No, that's generally not true. ON clauses in joins are basically a syntactic sugar (though there's a subtle difference in case of outer joins). These three statements are equivalent: select * from animals a join animaltype at on at.id=a.typeid where a.name='Monkey' and a.subspecies=2; select * from animals a, animaltype at where a.name='Monkey' and a.subspecies=2 and at.id=a.typeid; select * from animals a join animaltype at on ( at.id=a.typeid and a.name='Monkey' and a.subspecies=2); So, whether a particular condition is in WHERE clause or in ON clause is immaterial. Igor Tandetnik _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users