Re: A bit of SQL tuning

> I'd be interested to get an opinion on the fastest way to do an indexed
> search on a substring aka I'm looking for the "WHERE MYCOL=%ABCD%"
> functionnality. The underlying table is very huge. I can see several ways
to
> do that

I can't see any ways to do that. If there's a leading % Oracle won't use an index. In any case you'll need to use "like" instead of an equal sign or the query won't find what you want.

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