Re: Index Calculation Question
Date: 1995/09/14
Message-ID: <43952l$5hv_at_aplinfo.jhuapl.edu>#1/1
stevec_at_zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (Steve Cosner) wrote:
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> By the way, the Step 5 equation looks pretty stupid to me... Note that
> "avg.entry size" is in both the numerator and denominator of the
> equation. Why did they do that???
Steve:
So is it true that the "F" in the example (1*3) represents 3
columns that make up the index and the "22" is the total avg size
of the 3 index columns ??
>
> By the way, the Step 5 equation looks pretty stupid to me... Note that
> "avg.entry size" is in both the numerator and denominator of the
> equation. Why did they do that???
I agree. It is somewhat redundant to repeat the "avg.entry size" since they cnacel each other.
Stan Received on Thu Sep 14 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST