Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>Monetary cost is not the issue - cost in time is the issue.
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>cheers
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>andrew
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We seem to be in agreement. I'm looking for faster/smarter access to
data, not the monetary cost of doing so. Isn't it faster/smarter to
satisfy a query with the index rather than sequentially scanning an
entire relation if it is possible?
Replying to the list as a whole:
If this is such a bad idea, why do other database systems use it? As a
businessperson myself, it doesn't seem logical to me that commercial
database companies would spend money on implementing this feature if it
wouldn't be used. Remember guys, I'm just trying to help.