> It's hot here. I wish I was at the beach and I feel like an ant.

Hmmm.

> During an indexed query on a single table the index will be 
> accessed, then  the table,  then the index,then the table, 
> then the index,then the table then the index,then the table.

Assuming you get 4 rows returned :)

> If the index and the table are on the same disk then a lot of 
> time will be taken up by head seek movement.
> If they are on the different disks then the "index" heads can 
> locate their  data and stay  there - and the "data" heads can 
> locate their data and stay  there. Less head movement, less wasted
time.

I would understand this if I had one index and one table.  On a busy
system with many users wouldn't the heads move, anyway, to serve queries
that used other indexes and tables?

Gudmundur


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