Dave:

That's not possible.  This is an old dictionary that doesn't change.  Nobody has
access to these dictionaries except me.

Bill 

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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Davis
>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:20 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [U2] UD: Using indexes in UniQuery
>
>The right-justification idea makes the most sense to me.  If the index
>was created and built when the field was defined as 
>right-justified, and
>then somebody changed the definition to left-justified, it might still
>think you couldn't use the query.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett
>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:35 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [U2] UD: Using indexes in UniQuery
>
>Dave:
>
>Thanks.  But I did that too (I also showed the REQUIRE.INDEX keyword
>can't come at the end of the sentence).
>
>>2 Demo (0)-> select GLPOST REQUIRE.INDEX WITH INDEX_2 LIKE "0605..."
>> 
>>Index can not be used processing this query.
>>2 Demo (0)->
>
>Bill 
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Davis
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:13 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: RE: [U2] UD: Using indexes in UniQuery
>>
>>Place the REQUIRE.INDEX option after "select GLPOST" and before the 
>>first WITH.  You can't place it after the criteria in UniData.
>>
>>REQUIRE.INDEX works in ecltype U but not ecltype P.
>>
>>You can also use "NO.INDEX" to force it NOT to use the index.  Try:
>>
>>select GLPOST NO.INDEX WITH INDEX_2 LIKE "0605..."
>>
>>It might be saying you can't use the index because it is interpreting
>>0605 as a pattern instead of a literal.
>>
>>LIKE "'0605'..." instead of "0605..."
>>
>>As for the queries taking longer, are the files sized correctly?
>> 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:35 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [U2] UD: Using indexes in UniQuery
>>
>>I forgot to add:
>> 
>>UD v7.1.9
>>SORT.TYPE = 2  (forced to do this because of improper sorting in 
>>SORT.TYPE 0)
>> 
>>Bill
>>
>>  _____
>>
>>From: Bill Haskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:25 PM
>>To: '[email protected]'
>>Subject: UD: Using indexes in UniQuery
>>
>>
>>I'm having difficulty ensuring the indexes are used in UniQuery.  In 
>>D3, if I do the
>>following:
>> 
>>26 Demo (0)-> SELECT GLPOST WITH INDEX_2 = "0605]"
>> 
>>[4041] 21791 items selected.
>> 
>>...it would always use the index if one existed.  I knew the 
>index was 
>>used because the selected message didn't include the " out of {n} 
>>items." string appended to the end (e.g. "[404] 21791 items selected
>out of 884083 items.").
>> 
>>On an old P3 server, running D3, with 50 people on it, 512Mb memory 
>>(shared by Linux), this took about 9 seconds.  On a new Intel Xeon 
>>server, running UniData,
>with
>>5 people on it, 2Gb memory, Windows 2K3, this took about 19 seconds.
>> 
>>In UniData, I notice some selects are taking significantly 
>longer than 
>>in D3.  I've properly indexed the file, I can test that 
>indexing works 
>>by using a BASIC program than does the usual SETINDEX, READXFWD, 
>>READXBCK, etc.  The index looks
>>like:
>> 
>>22 Demo (0)-> LIST.INDEX GLPOST
>>Alternate Key Index Details for File GLPOST             Page   1
>> 
>>File..................  GLPOST
>>Alternate key length..  45
>>Node/Block size.......  4K
>>OV blocks.............  1 (0 in use, 0 overflowed) 
>>Indices...............  2 (0 D-type) Index updates.........  Enabled, 
>>No updates pending
>> 
>>Index-Name......  F-type K-type Built Empties Dups In-DICT S/M 
>>F-no/VF-expr....
>>INDEX_1           V      Txt    Yes   Yes     Yes  Yes     S   
>>YRMO_PSTD
>>: JRNL
>>INDEX_2           V      Txt    Yes   Yes     Yes  Yes     S   OCONV(
>>CLIENTNO,
>>                                                               
>> 'MR%4' )
>>: YRMO
>>                                                               _PSTD :
>>OCONV( A
>>                                                               CCTNO, 
>>'MR%6' )
>>                                                              
> : OCONV(
>
>>@ID, 'M
>>                                                               R%8' )
>> 
>>2 Demo (0)-> LIST GLPOST INDEX_2
>>LIST GLPOST INDEX_2 12:14:43 Aug 15 2007 1 GLPOST 
>>INDEX_2.................
>> 
>>829572 026020040700407000829572
>>377626 014020030300407000377626
>>583056 060520030800307000583056
>>500884 077020000500407000500884
>>952830 095020050100513000952830
>>
>> 
>>When I try the REQUIRE.INDEX keyword it seems to fail.
>> 
>>2 Demo (0)-> select GLPOST WITH INDEX_1 LIKE "200702..." 
>REQUIRE.INDEX 
>>In E:\DataTrust\DTA\BP\BP\_TCL.SHELL at line 1023 select GLPOST WITH
>>INDEX_1 LIKE
>>"200702..." REQUIRE.INDEX
>>In E:\DataTrust\DTA\BP\BP\_TCL.SHELL at line 1023 
>>--------------------------------------------------------^
>>In E:\DataTrust\DTA\BP\BP\_TCL.SHELL at line 1023 syntax error
>>
>>2 Demo (0)-> select GLPOST REQUIRE.INDEX WITH INDEX_2 LIKE "0605..."
>> 
>>Index can not be used processing this query.
>>2 Demo (0)->
>> 
>>Does anyone know how to make sure indexes are used automatically by 
>>UniQuery, or how to make them work period?  I can't seem to find
>anything in the UDT.OPTIONS manual.
>> 
>>Thanks.
>> 
>>Bill Haskett
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