On Oct 9, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:

> Maybe, if we had a column called 'published_date' and we did a query for data 
> within a date range.. the fastest way to get the information back would be to 
> have an index on that column.  Suppose we sorted all the data by date - would 
> there be a way to use that information so that we don't have to create the 
> index?

Not really. Alternatively, you could partition your data into different tables 
and then simulate partition pruning at query time. This is not supported 
directly by SQLite, but is straightforward enough to simulate.

http://www.orafaq.com/tuningguide/partition%20prune.html

> Maybe, I'm worrying about the wrong things :)

Maybe.

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