Utility of indexes

From: Juan Pardillos <sicotom_at_eresmas.com>
Date: 11 Nov 2003 08:30:34 -0800
Message-ID: <6278687.0311110830.215f56ac_at_posting.google.com>

Hi,

I have an attribute in a table that I know the number of different values it can take is small. However, there are lots of tuples in the table. Does it make sense to define an index on that attribute?

Thanks in advance Received on Tue Nov 11 2003 - 17:30:34 CET

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