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Re: Q: To check a record's existence in a table, FAST!

From: John Stote <stotejo_at_rbcel.com>
Date: 1997/04/19
Message-ID: <3358cdd8.6052302@news.demon.co.uk>#1/1 







Two thoughts:



    
  
  1.   Clearly an index on ColA is required.

  
  2.   Hashing makes this kind of thing very fast for the right type of
data. Consider putting the table in a cluster along with the
appropriate index.






John..
Received on Sat Apr 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT












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