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Index on datetime type
Posted by: Manzell Blakeley
Date: November 17, 2010 09:57AM

Hello,
I have a large table (~3 million rows) which contain a datetime values (actually two - a "datetime_start" and "datetime_end". let's call it table1.


In my query, I generate from another table a list of specific datetime values (call it table2), and I want to join to table1 based on
table2.datetime between table1.datetime_start and table1.datetime_end

Unfortunately, I don't know how to set this up as an index; at the very worst I'd like to be able to index the date portion of the datetime. I could do this by creating an extra column in table1 w/ just the date portion of the data and index that, but that violates the normalcy rules.

question 1: how can i speed up these types of queries
question 2: are two seperate datetimes the best way to store timespan data?

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