Performance issues making a SELECT with ORDER BY (DESC)

From: PPN <ppn_at_mederic.fr>
Date: 12 Jul 2002 04:32:34 -0700
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Hello.

I am currently using Oracle 8i on an 8 processor Sun machine running Solaris, and I'd like to know if there is any loss of performance when, instead of making an ORDER BY in my SELECT, I use ORDER BY ... DESC on the very same columns.
I order on two columns, each of these having its own index, and I join the table with 4 other tables.
My tables do not have enough data to make relevant tests (each table has less than 1.000 lines...).

Thanks for answering.
P. Received on Fri Jul 12 2002 - 13:32:34 CEST

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