RE: Why are my indexes being ignored?

[Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIO]

The select statement is:

select objid from trafficassignmentpersistent where subclassidentifier = 17;


Bill Carle
AT&T
Database Administrator
816-995-3922
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 -----Original Message-----
Sent:   Friday, June 29, 2001 10:53 AM
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Subject:        Re: Why are my indexes being ignored?

What is the sql statement that you are executing
against this table?

Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIO wrote:

>Hi,
>
>    I created an index on a table. The table has about 83,000 rows. The
>index is a simple index on one field, 35 different values of the index. I
>analyzed the table and I analyzed the index, trying it both with a
histogram
>and without a histogram. No matter how I do it, it does a full table scan.
>Any ideas why? I know I can use a hint, but it seems to me that it ought to
>use the index.
>
>
>Bill Carle
>AT&T
>Database Administrator
>816-995-3922
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>



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