Re: DWH : Index on Partition Key s

I don't see the point if you have any prefixed local index, but if you have none, if you have one partition by month and most queries hit a single day or less, then this index *might*, depending on volume, etc, etc. benefit those queries.
But then perhaps you could begin to question the partition grain ...

By the way a lot of developers seem never to have been told that you could index several columns at once. Or it's just the developers that work on the applications I have to audit.

S Faroult

Hemant K Chitale wrote:
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> Would there be any reason to create a single column index on the
> PARTITION_KEY column (which is a VARCHAR2 representation of a date
> --- I know, I know, bear with me !) ?
> So, we have 24 PARTITION_KEY values for the 24 months that we are
> holding data.
> Why have a single-column index on PARTITION_KEY ?
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> (no this isn't a trick question : I am really confused by this design
> that I see having been implemented).
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> Hemant K Chitale
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> http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com
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