Hi; I own some joomla 1.5 web sites. the most common query for joomla 1.5 is below. my jos_content table has over 112k records. that query is taking too much time to pull data SELECT a.id, a.title, a.alias, a.title_alias, a.introtext, a.fulltext, a.sectionid, a.state, a.catid, a.created, a.created_by, a.created_by_alias, a.modified, a.modified_by, a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.publish_up, a.publish_down, a.images, a.attribs, a.urls, a.metakey, a.metadesc, a.access, CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(a.alias) THEN CONCAT_WS(':', a.id, a.alias) ELSE a.id END AS slug, CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(cc.alias) THEN CONCAT_WS(":", cc.id, cc.alias) ELSE cc.id END AS catslug, CHAR_LENGTH( a.`fulltext` ) AS readmore, u.name AS author, u.usertype, g.name AS groups, u.email AS author_email, cc.title AS category, s.title AS section, s.ordering AS s_ordering, cc.ordering AS cc_ordering, a.ordering AS a_ordering, f.ordering AS f_ordering FROM jos_content AS a INNER JOIN jos_content_frontpage AS f ON f.content_id = a.id LEFT JOIN jos_categories AS cc ON cc.id = a.catid LEFT JOIN jos_sections AS s ON s.id = a.sectionid LEFT JOIN jos_users AS u ON u.id = a.created_by LEFT JOIN jos_groups AS g ON a.access = g.id WHERE 1 AND a.access <= 0 AND a.state = 1 AND (( cc.published = 1 AND s.published = 1 ) OR ( a.catid = 0 AND a.sectionid = 0 ) ) AND ( a.publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_up <= '2009-04-08 16:14:51' ) AND ( a.publish_down = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR a.publish_down >= '2009-04-08 16:14:51' ) ORDER BY a.created DESC can you suggest me any multicolumn index for that type of query? Regards