On 8/18/06, Herring Dave - dherri <Dave.Herring_at_acxiom.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Jared. This table is primarily accessed to retrieve one row at a
> time, to update a status of a particular job, for example. This really
> should be indexed as there's no need to scan all 100k rows multiple times
> per minute. With an index it'd be hitting a block at a time instead of
> multi-blocked read of 1M. Why busy the cache way more than necessary,
> especially with hundreds of updates a day, causing the blocks to be flushed
> out.
>
I missed that in the original post. Like I said, it's Friday.
Yes, an index is probably in order.
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Jared Still
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Received on Fri Aug 18 2006 - 12:09:57 CDT
