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Re: Substring ignores index
Posted by: Denver Vender
Date: February 09, 2007 04:01AM

instead of using a substring that will not use the index

SELECT * mytable WHERE substring(mycolumn,1,8)='12345678'

try using

SELECT * mytable WHERE mycolumn LIKe '12345678%'

if your matching the first few characters..

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