Re: Performance while loading data and indexing

On 26 Sep 2002 at 11:50, Mario Weilguni wrote:

> >Well the test runs were for 10GB of data. Schema is attached. Read in fixed
> >fonts..Last nullable fields are dummies but may be used in fututre and
> varchars
> >are not acceptable(Not my requirement). Tuple size is around 100 bytes..
> >The index creation query was
> >
> >CREATE INDEX index1 ON tablename (esn,min,datetime);
> >
> >What if I put datetime ahead? It's likely the the datetime field will have
> high
> >degree of locality being log data..
>
> Just an idea, I noticed you use char(10) for esn and min, and use this as
> index. Are these really fixed len fields all having 10 bytes? Otherwise
> varchar(10) would be better, because your tables, and especially the indices
> will be probably much smaller.
>
> what average length do you have for min and esn?

10 bytes. Those are id numbers.. like phone numbers always have all the digits
filled in..

Bye
Shridhar

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