RE: Do fast full index scans do physical disk reads?

[Jared . Still]

Well, yes.  I somtimes have this glimmer of hope that the uninitiated will
RTFM
and get the details for themselves.

I'm obviously inconsistent in that philosophy.  :)

Jared




                                                                                       
                             
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Yes it's fun getting Chris, our self-touting genuis.  However, the point is
not that unique indexes cannot be compressed, but that the prefix length
canot be mre that one less than the numbewr of coluymns in the index.

Ian A MacGregor
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