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The redbook DB2-400 Mastering Data Warehouse Functions sg2458184 says:

This density factor is used by the Optimizer to favor the usage of indexes that
have the highest density factor. The density factor becomes part of the
calculations for data space I/O. Since the Optimizer can take advantage of this
information, we recommend that you create EVIs (even in OLTP environment) for
keys that:
• Have keys, which are naturally clustered
For example, if the sales transactions are added daily to the file, the file is
naturally clustered by sales date.
• Have keys, which were used in a sort to load the file

Consider also that it's SOP to have EVI's over the foreign key columns
in your SALES_FACT table; one of which is usually a date key to the
DATE_DIM.

So yeah, I consider Dates to be useful for EVI's

Charles

Charles

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Alan Shore <ashore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have just started reading about Encoded Vector Index (or EVI)
One of the points that seems to be stressed is cardinality as far as the key is concerned.
The states of the USA is good cardinality as there are only 50 of them.
Timestamps are bad, because you can have up to a kajillion of them.
How do you determine what is good and what is bad?
For instance, a date field (or at least a numeric field which represents a date), would that be considered a bad choice for cardinality.
Cardinality - I hope I have the correct word


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