Oracle FAQ Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US
 

Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Optimizer execution-plan problem

Re: Optimizer execution-plan problem

From: Damien Salvador <damien.salvador_at_via.ecp.fr>
Date: 1 Nov 2001 13:09:47 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn9u2icq.aj0.damien.salvador@zen.via.ecp.fr>


On 1 Nov 2001 05:05:01 -0800, Stefan Olausson <qhsstol_at_hotmail.com> a écrit:
>
>But why doesnt it work the same with "WHERE a IS NULL" ?
>Indexes cannot be used to find NULL-values or what ?

Bingo ! :-)

Null values are not indexed ... at least with regular indexes

There is a case when Null can be indexed but I cannot seem to remember when :-/
Someone out there ?

-- 
Damien
Received on Thu Nov 01 2001 - 07:09:47 CST

Original text of this message

HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US