Selectivity
From: GoranG <no_at_spam.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:24:09 +0100
Message-ID: <1v4vavk5ci76ci13d0d4n0v4l68157l4jg_at_4ax.com>
Could someone, please, shed some light on why for selectivity (s) defined as the ratio of the number of tuples that satisfy the condition to the total number of tuples in the relation, and hence a number between 0 and 1, it is often (allways?) said that high selectivity corresponds to low value of this ratio and low selectivity corresponds to the high value of such ratio ?!
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:24:09 +0100
Message-ID: <1v4vavk5ci76ci13d0d4n0v4l68157l4jg_at_4ax.com>
Could someone, please, shed some light on why for selectivity (s) defined as the ratio of the number of tuples that satisfy the condition to the total number of tuples in the relation, and hence a number between 0 and 1, it is often (allways?) said that high selectivity corresponds to low value of this ratio and low selectivity corresponds to the high value of such ratio ?!
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Received on Wed Apr 30 2003 - 11:24:09 CEST