Re: SQL View Question

Walden,

At 02:15 PM 10/14/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I was just thinking....
>
>In SQL, if a view contains record selection, but no index, and an index 
>contains no record selection is there any SQL implementation of a static 
>select/omit access path?

I think that a view _is_, in fact, the same as a static select/omit access
path, sans ordering, since it is a logical file, whose access path will be
maintained as any other logical file. Couldn't the implementation, then, be
SELECT * FROM view ORDER BY fieldlist, where the ORDER BY matches the index
(or some other keyed logical file)? I don't know what the SQL engine will
do under the covers.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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