Re: cardinalism

Joe,
What role does cardinality play as a criterion for selecting the indexes, and performance tuning?
TIA,
-S
In article <8k8s6o$75a$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   Joe Celko <71062.1056_at_compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> >> what is cardinalism? <<
>
> I think you mean "Cardinality", which is a mathematical term that
 means
> the number of elements in a set. In SQL we define the cardinality of
 a
> table to mean the number of rows in that table.
>
> --CELKO--
> Joe Celko, SQL and Database Consultant
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