Re: SQL question

Ravi,

I assume this displayed the records selected on the screen?
If so, did you type "B" and enter to get the last record selected?
I'm guessing that this would have taken a long time.

short of that, I don't have a clue.

Ravi wrote:
> 
> Howdy folks,
> 
> I have a file with about 1/2 million records on our development
> machine (V4R2).
> 
> I ran a SQL query from ISQL:
> -  Select distinct FIELD from FILE.
> The query ran in about 2 minutes and gave me the result set with
> about 200,000 records. FIELD is not a key field.
> 
> I ran another query from ISQL over the same file/field:
> - Select count(distinct FIELD) from FILE.
> This query ran for over 10 minutes and returned the count.
> Why would this query take so much longer than the first query? I ran the
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