On Fri, 1 Jun 2001,Joseph S. Testa scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
->i spent about a week about 6 months ago looking for something to fill
->that possibility to no avail.
dumb question would a contex... oh excuse me InterMedia index work?
->
->joe
->Rachel Carmichael wrote:
->>
->> she knows why it isn't being used. What Suzy wants to know (and I do too,
->> because I have a similar situation) is if there is a way to create an index
->> that will let you search with the like clause.
->>
->> Unfortunately my gut instinct is that you can't make Oracle do that
->>
->> >From: "Hillman, Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
->> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
->> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
->> >Subject: RE: function index for like '%string%'
->> >Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:11:08 -0800
->> >
->> >index is not used because you have leading % in the like predicate.
->> >
->> >Alex Hillman
->> >
->> >-----Original Message-----
->> >Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:09 PM
->> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
->> >
->> >
->> >
->> >I've created a function index for lower(column_name). However the query
->> >does
->> >a like comparison rather than equality so the index isn't used. Is there a
->> >way to create a function index for this?
->> >
->> >Here's the index and query:
->> >
->> >create index fx1_auth_users
->> >on auth_users (lower(current_email)
->> >tablespace app01_midx ;
->> >
->> >select current_email from auth_users
->> >where lower(current_email) like '%datsit.com%' ;
->> >
->> >Thanks much,
->> >Suzy
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