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Re: Index hehavior

From: Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw_at_centrexcc.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:39:46 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D5B1B.20031105143946@fatcity.com>


Just to verify and make absolutely clear: those two sql ran back to back with no changes to anything (statistics, session parameters) in between. Right?

At 10:09 AM 11/5/2003, you wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>Does someone throw ligts on the following index behavior
>
>Note
>a)"name" is an unique index column
>b) table and index has been analyzed b4 running the query
>
>1) select id from table1 where name like 'ABC%';
>FULL Table scan
>
>1) select id from table1 where name like 'AB%';
>Index scan
>
>"name" is an unique index column
>
>Any help would be really appreciated.
>-Sami

Wolfgang Breitling
Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA
Centrex Consulting Corporation
http://www.centrexcc.com

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