Dear Christian
PLEASE DO READ A BOOK about the BASICS of SQL ; ;-)
you made a cartesian product of the two entities 25 k X 25 k rows is
simply results xxx million rows....
may take time :-(
Claus

Christian Gütter schrieb:

>Hi,
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>running the following query against Firebird 1.50
>causes the server to compute for a very long (infinite?)
>time:
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>SELECT MAX (T1.ID),
> MAX (T2.ID)
> FROM Table1 T1, Table2 T2
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>The two ID Fields are PKs, both table contain approximately
>25 K records.
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>I have never used such a query before, so I am wondering
>if it is valid or invalid and what is causing Firebird to
>work so long.
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>Thanks in advance,
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>Christian
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