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Meaning of Reverse index ?

From: Ginger Mall <bocgco_at_hongkong.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:13:58 +0800
Message-ID: <3e6433d0$1@shknews01> 





I have read from books talking about "reverse index".  I know it reverses
the order of the key value.  However I am not quite understand why this kind
of arrangement could help the B-Tree index to be more efficient.  Could
anyone explain this to me ?



Thank you very much.
Received on Mon Mar 03 2003 - 23:13:58 CST












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