Re: select with Null

From: Natasha Batson <nbatson_at_neal-and-massy.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:26:23 -0400
Message-Id: <10688.122755@fatcity.com>

Clarify something for me please:

Nulls are not stored in an index.

So the query :

select d.discount_type

from discount d
where (NVL(d.company_code,'XX') = 'XX')

and (NVL(d.operator_code,'YY') = 'YY')\

will first perform a full table scan to find the nulls and then utilise the index to locate the values?

Original Message ----- From: <Marcos.Vera_at_msconsultores.com.pe> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 2:15 PM Subject: Re: select with Null

select d.discount_type

from discount d
where (NVL(d.company_code,'XX') = 'XX')

and (NVL(d.operator_code,'YY') = 'YY')

Raj Gopalan <raj.gopalan_at_netdecisions.co.uk> on 22/11/2000 12:35:24 PM

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Subject: select with Null

Hello list,

I have a query

select d.discount_type

from discount d
where (d.company_code = 'XX' or

            d.company_code is null)
     and (d.operator_code = 'YY' or
             d.operator_code is null)

Apparently, oracle is not using the index since I am using IS NULL. But the functional requirement is such that the query need to consider records even if company_code, Operator_code ,... is null.

Any thoughts on how do I modify this query so that the index is being used.

TIA Raj
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