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Right. A simple SELECT without a complex WHERE and no LOBs returning "just" 8000 rows should happen almost instantly on Oracle. If not, start by issuing the same SQL statement in SQLplus or similar, if that is slow, consult the Oracle admin.

About fifteen years ago, I filled an Oracle table with a few thousand rows of simple address data (id, name, street, town, phone, email), the following "SELECT * FROM $table" several minutes. My Oracle guru just muttered "primary key?", and of course, my CREATE TABLE lacked the PRIMARY KEY on the id column. So Oracle had do to a full table scan for each record I selected. Adding the primary key to the ID column reduced the time required to a few milliseconds.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: Is it possible to run SQL select in Oracle and SQL Server to get a large recordset and import it straight into an array, looking to avoid using rownext by afoken
in thread Is it possible to run SQL select in Oracle and SQL Server to get a large recordset and import it straight into an array, looking to avoid using rownext by newbieperlperson

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