I am posting this for the Author Phil Leach with his permission. It works great.

The enclosed files will build an application that takes summary information from a main table and propagates a second table. This is useful if you find yourself doing queries like

SELECT DISTINCT maintable.fieldname from maintable

Now you can do

SELECT summarytable.fieldname from summarytable

which will be substantially faster.

It was written to answer a specific problem on my server and as such may have some machine dependent coe left in that I have missed. Feel free to modify to suit your needs.

I have successfully run it on a Solaris 2.4 machine but see no reason why it wouldn't work every where.

Hope this helps.

David Perry

p.s. Any errors you find are likely mine as a result of me taking out the machine dependency and shouldn't be blamed on Phil, a really bright guy.
