RE: SQL/400

Alexei,

However, as I understand it the view won't really speed things up much. The
view will give you the advantage of a pre-optimized access plan, but it
WON'T give you a pre-build access path. AFAIK, there is no SQL version of a
static select/omit access path. I would guess that the majority of the time
here is spent building a path, not determining a plan. The plan probably
takes several milliseconds, the rest of the time is the build.

Now that I've typed this I realize that Sandeep could determine the
selection the optimizer is doing and build a STATIC select/omit access path
with that selection outside of SQL. The optimizer should use it. 

Sandeep, make sure you are doing your testing over a similarly sized files.
Different access plans are chosen depending on the number of records in a
file. It is ALWAYS fastest to tablescan a table with 100 rows, but in
production with 38,000,000 a tablescan is a killer.

-Walden


-----Original Message-----
From: pytel@us.ibm.com [mailto:pytel@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 5:43 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: SQL/400


Building index from index is not the same as building index from table
data.
It normally involves doing preselection on underlying index.
If optimizer have chosen to build such index, it obviously decided that
this was the fastest way to get a result.
You cannot "pre-build" such index, so if you think this is a concern, try
to reformulate your query.

PS: as a second thought, you can try to build a view, if you can guess what
kind of preselection was done.
And then address your query to a view, not to original table.

    Alexei Pytel


Sandeep Potnis <potnis@india.com> on 03/07/2000 03:20:24 PM

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I already have an index on that field. The issue is that its creating an
index on index dynamically. How can I avoid that ? Or should I try to avoid
that?


Appreciate your response.

Sandeep

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Build a logical over the file keyed by the date field.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Sandeep Potnis [SMTP:potnis@india.com]
> Sent:   Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:18 AM
> To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:     SQL/400
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a table(TableA) with 38 million rows in it. One of the columns is
> DATE type and I have an index(XDTIndex) on that column.
>
> When I run an interactive query with date selection I get an
informational
> message saying 'Building access path from XDTIndex'
>
> Can I avoid this by creating this access path in advance ? If so how?
>
> Thanks
>
> Sandeep
>
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