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My client has a large partitioned file defined as an SQL Table, which has 3
different Indexes defined.

Size of one of the index size is about 3 times that of the others. We were
trying to figure out why, and whether anything can be done about it.

Record length : 381 bytes (no variable length or date format fields)
Index 1 : Key length 60 bytes (Fields A - 18, B - 9, C - 15, D - 15, E -
packed 5,0) - Unique
Index 2 : Key length 61 bytes (Fields A - 18, B - 9, C - 15, D - 15, X -
packed 7,0)
Index 3 : Key length 64 bytes (Fields Y - packed 7,0, A - 18, B - 9, C -
15, D - 15, E - packed 5,0)

No selection on either index, so number of index entries on all is the same.

Index 1 is about 223 GB, Index 2 is about 151 GB, Index 3 is about 680 GB

Any ideas?

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