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Re: index on null column

From: AK <oramagic_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:59:01 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00575496.20030328075901@fatcity.com>


It means if I do a query with where clause with A=:x its going to go for index .
Does oracle go to table if :x is null. It looks like it does . ???

-ak

> AK
> Yes, it will benefit the non-null records. Just remember that the null
> values aren't indexes.
>
>
>
> Dennis Williams
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> I have a table with column A. there are 1000000 records in table out of
> which 500o records has not null in column A rest are null.
> if i created an index on A, will it benefit .
>
> thanks,
> ak
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