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Message Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 @ 19:30:10 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: Are my Primary Indexes being used? |
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| From: | | Victor Sokovin |
| | How can a DBA find out if the Primary Indexes are being used using DBQL, Object logging, SQL, or Utilities? | |
I might understand what you mean but the formal answer to the question is that they are pretty much always used. PI contain the
information about physical location of the data, and sooner or later the SQL query will need that data. Efficient queries will get to the PI
faster than the slow ones, and they will be more precise with their PI ranges. Perhaps your question is how to measure such efficiency?
There could be situations when the data comes from dependent objects such as join indexes. Perhaps you want to single out such cases?
Anyway, you probably need to be more specific.
Regards,
Victor
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