Re: Updatable column - index column consideration

Look at function-based indexes. One based on value P, one on value C. Exclude the H rows since it's a waste to index them.

Change the code to use the function-based indexes, and make sure that you have designed indexes to support the "most recent job id" subquery properly.

Regards

Jonathan Lewis
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Oracle Core (Apress 2011)
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• Original Message ----- From: "Antony Raj" <ca_raj_at_yahoo.com> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:09 PM Subject: Updatable column - index column consideration

Hi,

I have a huge table say 50 million rows.It has a status_flag column and it's values are 'H' and 'C'.
Everyday,a job inserts ~85000 rows into this table with a status_flag='P' and at the end of proceesing the batch job,the status_flag is gettin updated from 'P' to 'C' and the previous day's rows(identified by jobid) are updated from 'C' to 'H'.

Since this column status_flag is getting updated and volatile in nature,is it recommended not to index this column??

There are few other SELECT statements using status_flag as one their predicates.

Thanks
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Fri Feb 10 2012 - 16:34:09 CST