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Re: Index Usage

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:03:10 -0700
Message-ID: <1119045800.685266@yasure>


Rich wrote:
> It seems I've searched for years on this one, on and off, but haven't
> ever found an acceptable answer. I have a table x with a single
> composite index created on columns a, b, c (in that order). I'm
> interested to know HOW MUCH of the composite index a particular query
> is using - is it using column a in the index, columns a and b, or all
> three parts of the composition?
>
> rjh

Explain Plan using the DBMS_XPLAN built-in package plus a little bit of deductive reasoning.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Fri Jun 17 2005 - 17:03:10 CDT

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