Re: RE: RULE versus CHOOSE

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 20:24:54 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00343B9C.20010706203550@fatcity.com>

On Friday 06 July 2001 10:28, VIVEK_SHARMA wrote:
> Can you possibly Detail what you mean by Skewed Data ?

Real life example.

145,000 rows. ( large rows ). the column most used by SQL queries has 4 distinct values. 144,800 of them are the same value.

Using histograms on this worked quite well.

Jared

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