Re: range lookups using bitampped indxees

From: MotoX <rat_at_tat.a-tat.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:10:19 +0100
Message-ID: <899993370.11995.0.nnrp-02.c2de712e@news.demon.co.uk>

A 'work around'?

Surely the 'problem' is that bitmapped indexes are not stored in a format that supports effective range scanning? I didn't know Oracle was working on a 'work around'?

Why not use a b-tree index instead, if that's how your data is organised/processed?

MotoX.

Umar FArooq wrote in message <35A4975C.B9161D33_at_cressoft.com.pk>...
>hi!
>could anyone tell me whether there is any work around for supporting
>range lookups using bitmapped indexes.
>
>Thx.
>
>umar farooq
>umar.farooq_at_cressoft.com.pk
>
Received on Thu Jul 09 1998 - 09:10:19 CDT