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Re: Big table help needed

From: joachim Carlsson <IKEA-joachim.carlsson_at_neurope.ikea.com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:36:03 +0200
Message-ID: <6ikcvn$e3n$1@mailgate.ikea.com>


You should index the table begining with the column that is holding most different values.
The indexing can do as much as 15000% in speedincrease.

Regards
/Joachim
Larry Schenavar wrote in message <6id84d$bj3$2_at_news1.infoave.net>...
>I have a 4 column table with 8 million rows. The key is 3 of the
>columns(one of them is a date). The table is very slow to query. Will
>creating an index on those three columns help? any other thoughts.
>
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>Larry Schenavar
>Infrastructure Specialist /DB
>Electronic Data Systems, Inc
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>Email: schenavar_at_northstate.net
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Received on Mon May 04 1998 - 07:36:03 CDT

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