[Solved] Window functions SORT costly, can we overcome it?

How to optimize this SQL query?

In case you have your own slow SQL query, you can optimize it automatically here.

For the query above, the following recommendations will be helpful as part of the SQL tuning process.
You'll find 3 sections below:

  1. Description of the steps you can take to speed up the query.
  2. The optimal indexes for this query, which you can copy and create in your database.
  3. An automatically re-written query you can copy and execute in your database.
The optimization process and recommendations:
  1. Avoid Subqueries (query line: 4): We advise against using subqueries as they are not optimized well by the optimizer. Therefore, it's recommended to join a newly created temporary table that holds the data, which also includes the relevant search index.
The optimized query:
SELECT
        * 
    FROM
        (SELECT
            MYTABLE.acctnum,
            MYTABLE.dept_num,
            row_number() OVER (PARTITION 
        BY
            DEPT_NUM 
        ORDER BY
            MYTABLE.ACCTNUM) AS row_identifier 
        FROM
            MYTABLE) 
    WHERE
        row_identifier BETWEEN 1 AND 10

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