Query performs well if it is not optimized

Hi,

If I issue this query, the results come very fast.
SELECT SUM(metric_diff) FROM snapshot_master WHERE snapshot_master.metric_id = 5 AND snapshot_master.timestamp_id in (select timestamp_id from timestamp_master where server_timestamp >= 1202091795 AND server_timestamp <= 1202113395 and strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %H:%M”, datetime(server_timestamp, ‘unixepoch’,
‘localtime’))
= (select strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %H:%M”, datetime(server_timestamp, ‘unixepoch’,
‘localtime’)) from timestamp_master where timestamp_id = 36000))

If I remove the sub-queries and try and join the tables, then the query takes a lot of time.

The tables are well designed, PK is on the metric_id and timestamp_id columns, even I have created indexes on the server_timestamp column.

Am I missing something?

Chn