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Why wouldn’t Oracle use a perfectly valid index? (joco.name)
1 point by lkrubner on March 3, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I am so stupid that up till now I made the assumption that indexes worked a lot like histograms. Only when I read this article did I start to think clearly about how different they are.




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