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Re: Help me understand the contents of INDEX_HISTOGRAM please...

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:09:20 -0000
Message-ID: <1011614872.24354.0.nnrp-12.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>

There are 154 key values that appear exactly once each, 101 key values that appear exactly twice each, 24 key values that appear exactly 3 times each, and so on.
No key value appears more than 6 times.

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Sri wrote in message <6425692a.0201210352.3ff0a7b7_at_posting.google.com>...

>Hello,
>
>Could you please help me interpret the contents of INDEX_HISTOGRAM
>once I've analyzed an index (I was pretty bad at maths when in
>high school, and much worse in the subject statistics...) ? So if you
>take the following output for ex., what conclusion would you draw
>from the figures this view currently contains ??, what do they mean ?:
>
>REPEAT_COUNT KEYS_WITH_REPEAT_COUNT
>------------ ----------------------
> 0 0
> 1 154
> 2 101
> 3 24
> 4 16
> 5 4
> 6 1
> 7 0
> 8 0
> 9 0
> 10 0
> 11 0
> 12 0
> 13 0
> 14 0
> 15 0
>
>16 rows selected.
>
>Thanks a lot...
>Sri
Received on Mon Jan 21 2002 - 06:09:20 CST

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