Re: Why Does Query Require Table Access

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:35:48 -0000
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"Shakespeare" <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:49832466$0$183$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...

>
> Would Oracle be so clever to avoid to read the table when one uses:
> trunc(business_date) = to_date(....)?
>

Unfortunately not. But you might expect things to behave very nicely if you had a constraint with for condition - especially if you also declare business_date to be non-null. Unfortunately that doesn't work either, although 11g is a little tidier about what it does than 9i.

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