How do I load the entire data set into memory? The denormalized data set is a few hundred GB (at least, as far as the BLOBs approach suggests), and, isn't Perl (or any process on a 32 bit computer) restricted to addressing 2 GB RAM? I don't really understand that very well, so if you have a strategy I can use, I am all ears.

Many thanks,

Update: Adding this note to explain more in response to perrin's note. In my original post above I have shown only the SELECTs and mentioned that each SELECT takes about 33 ms. To try and reduce that, I tried converting the result of each select to a BLOB. Since each result is a ref to an array of arrays, I serialized it using Storable with the help of Data::Serializer and INSERTed it into the blobs table. This was stupendously slow. I tried with both transactions (experimented with committing every 10, 100 and 1000 INSERTs) and without transactions. Besides the fact that each BLOB becomes 430 KB, which would result in a db much larger than my laptop's drive if run to completion, fortunately for my laptop, the darn process ran overnight and had done only about 30,000 or so INSERTs.

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