Thanks, you are completely right. I just tried it for the column `ìd` and it is very fast when WHERE includes less than 30 %. Unfortunately it doesn´t work for a field which type is `date` like in our case (I tried: 2011-11-25 which should bring back less than 10 % of the rows).
Since we want the whole database (because we already deleted all events which took place in the past) is there any other tag to load the entire content of the database? We already tried this:
$db= $modx->getCollection('events');
But this wasn´t any faster than the other call and I am in addition not sure if this is a correct syntax.