Create indexes for Query Optimization

I am using ASP.net application on SQL server 2005.
I am getting data from the DB using this SQL statement from 2 tables:
Select Table1.a,Table1.b,Table2.C from Table1 INNER JOIN Table1 ON
Table2.e=Table.e Where Table1.a=XXX AND Table1.b>YYY Order Table1.a DESC
Table1 has around 2,000,000 Records and table has 3 records.
The query is running very slow.
How do Optimize the query using Indexes ?
On Which fields should I create the indexes ?
Thanks
ra294
ra294@.hotmail.com
On Jan 7, 6:56Xpm, "ra294" <ra...@.hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am using ASP.net application on SQL server 2005.
> I am getting data from the DB using this SQL statement from 2 tables:
> Select Table1.a,Table1.b,Table2.C from Table1 INNER JOIN Table1 ON
> Table2.e=Table.e Where Table1.a=XXX AND Table1.b>YYY Order Table1.a DESC
> Table1 has around 2,000,000 Records and table has 3 records.
> The query is running very slow.
> How do Optimize the query using Indexes ?
> On Which fields should I create the indexes X?
> Thanks
> ra294
> ra...@.hotmail.com
Do you have index on either columns a or b? Also, you might consider
remove the order by clause and do it later.