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Re: Query with 'LIKE' comparison questions

From: sim <jmenker_at_muenster.de>
Date: 12 Oct 2005 00:23:15 -0700
Message-ID: <1129101795.719936.21670@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> 





Hi Pete!



The leading '%' prevents the usage of an index. I'm not sure if that's
also true for a bitmap index. Therefore if you have the proper
privileges you could create a bitmap index on acct_num. You can also
try to use ltrim(acct_num,'0') and see if this is faster then using
like.



Jörg
Received on Wed Oct 12 2005 - 02:23:15 CDT












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