On Jul 23, 3:58 pm, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > Piet van Oostrum wrote: > >>>>>> Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> (SM) wrote: > > >> SM> btw, I don't know if it's of any importance, the SQL-statement I > >> perform is > >> SM> select OPNAMEN.*, NAME, NAME_, SCORES.SCORE, PATIENT.* > >> SM> from OPNAMEN > >> SM> inner join POID_VLID on OPNAMEN.POID = > >> POID_VLID.POID > >> SM> inner join VRAAGLST on VRAAGLST.VLID = > >> POID_VLID.VLID > >> SM> inner join VLID_SSID on VRAAGLST.VLID = > >> VLID_SSID.VLID > >> SM> inner join SUBSCHAAL_GEGEVENS on SUBSCHAAL_GEGEVENS.SSID = > >> VLID_SSID.SSID > >> SM> inner join POID_SSID_SCID on ( OPNAMEN.POID = > >> SM> POID_SSID_SCID.POID ) and > >> SM> ( SUBSCHAAL_GEGEVENS.SSID = > >> SM> POID_SSID_SCID.SSID ) > >> SM> inner join SCORES on SCORES.SCID = > >> SM> POID_SSID_SCID.SCID > >> SM> inner join PID_POID on OPNAMEN.POID = > >> PID_POID.POID > >> SM> inner join PATIENT on PATIENT.PID = > >> PID_POID.PID > >> SM> where substr ( lower( NAME) , 1, 6) = 'cis20r' > >> SM> and lower ( NAME_ ) = 'fatigue' > >> SM> and TEST_COUNT in (3,4) > >> SM> and DATETIME > 39814.0 > >> SM> and SCORE < 30 > > > 1) Do you have indices on the join fields? > > well I'm happily surprised, you came up with this suggestion > - I thought that sqlite created indexes on all primairy key and unique > fields > - but after explicitly creating the indices, a gained a speed of about a > factor 10 > After checking the database creation, it seemed I forgot to make these > fields the primary key > so thanks very much. > > I gained another factor of 10 speed by updating to version 2.5.5 of > pysqlite. > > cheers, > Stef > > > 2) Look at the ANALYZE command > > 3) Look at the EXPLAIN command > >
You might want to consult the SQLite list for questions like this. Why do you use pysqlite? I just import sqlite3 in Python 2.5. What is the advantage of pysqlite? Che -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list