# query performance boost

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/query-performance-boost/38450>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [January 18, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/query-performance-boost/38450 "2009-01-18T19:40:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robby\_Russell1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/robby_russell1/32/1947_2.png) [@Robby\_Russell1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Robby_Russell1)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/query-performance-boost/38450/1 "2009-01-18T19:40:22Z")

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You can use :select in your calls to find to select specific fields to retrieve data for. Here is a quick writeup on it.

\* [http://www.geekskillz.com/articles/11](http://www.geekskillz.com/articles/11)

Good luck!

Cheers, Robby