Hi, > While I think that's unlikely, though not impossible, it's the retrieval of > the data that's the problem. I've worked on databases where the indexes > took up more space than the data.
the days of indexes are numbered, at last. http://www.ics.ie/transrelationalmodel.shtml There is a good description of this in the 8th edition of C J Date's "Introduction to Database Systems". http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321197844/qid=1075220084/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_11_9/202-9945030-3319035 -- Cheers, Bob
