|  |  | Archives of the TeradataForumMessage Posted: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 @ 17:12:34 GMT
 
 
  
| Subj: |  | Re: Row Id needed |  |  |  | From: |  | Dieter Nöth |  
 |  | -- Accessing by ROW_ID in SQL/SPL is not a especially fast (cannot compare at all to the primary index). |  | 
 
 
 If you use EXPLAIN you'll see the reason why: It's always using a Full Table Scan - they probably don't want the users to work with ROWID
too much ;-) 
 |  | -- this never used to be (and as far as I'm aware it still isn't) documented or supported by NCR. |  | 
 
 
 It is officially supported since R4 
 Dieter 
 
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