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Re: inner join on range criteria: unable to use index?
Posted by: KimSeong Loh
Date: August 12, 2008 01:38AM

Lets say you have 1000 rows, with value 0 to 999, and you have an index.

If you want to find all rows with value > 1, is it better to use the index or just read all the row?

The above is for 1 range condition.



If you have 2 range conditions, then it becomes more complicated. Usually only 1 range condition might be able to take advantage of the index, the other one not so useful anymore.

Lets take another example, you have a printed phone book that is sorted by the lastname follow by firstname. How do you find all people with lastname > 'b' and firstname <'d'. Is it easy or difficult?

Compare this with finding all people with lastname < 'b'.

And compare with finding all people with lastname < 'b' and firstname < 'b', would this any easier compare to the lastname < 'b' only?

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