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From: tom@mermaid.Litle.Com (Tom Hampton)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: How many tables vcan you join in Informix?
Message-ID: <544@mermaid.Litle.Com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 02:02:07 GMT
Reply-To: tom@mermaid.litle.com (Tom Hampton)
Organization: Litle & Co.
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We are creating a report which joins 13 tables to get at 
9 fields.

How may is *too* many?

The report, running on a massive Encore (100+ MIP), takes
about 10 minutes.  The database has few rows --
that can't be it.

Any ideas?
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