I have a table that has 2.5 million rows and 9 columns that are all
int except for 2 varchar(255) - i.e. not that big of a table. I am
executing a delete from that table like this:

delete from cdsem_event_message_idx where event_id in (....)

The in clause has around 1,500 items in it. event_id is an int, and
there is an index on event_id. This statement is taking 1 hour and 5
minutes to run. There is nothing else hitting the database at that
time, and the machine it's running on is 97% idle and has plenty of
free memory. This seems extremely excessive to me. I would guess it's
because of the in clause. Is there some better way to do a delete like
this?

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