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Evan,
Yes, just the question I had for myself and the reason I posted the way I did.

Old habits based on old experience maybe, but my thinking was/is:
1) indexes are expensive
2) multiple column indexes are relatively
less useful because fewer queries benefit
3) diminishing returns as added columns have
fewer and fewer "candidate rows"


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:11 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Index Advisor Question

I'm curious as to why those who have offered alternatives would not take the index advisor's advice.

Just looking to understand how a human expert discounts the advice of a code-driven tool and hoping to gains some insight into how to use index advisor better.

Why a 10 column index would be a red flag would be a good start - why is that specifically bad ? (Wanting to understand why that is so, not question the statement per se)


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:54 AM, William P Hunter <wphunter@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I would start debug and run the sql statement via strsql and see what
shows up in the jobs messages.

From: dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Index Advisor Question
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:45:44 +0200

Hi Gary,

first of all, I would collect some data with database Monitor
(STRDBMON)
to have a look to the real cost of those queries, then trying your
suggestion and have a look again to the cost in real life. If the cost
(= response time) is fine, best decision is: just do nothing.

Dieter
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