Month: October 2022

Physical Organization-Indexes-1

How the data is organized physically on disk deeply impacts these calculations, as it materially affects how expensive (or inexpensive) index access will be. Suppose you have a table where the rows have a primary key populated by a sequence. As data is added to the table, rows with sequential sequence numbers might be, in Read More

When Should You Use a Bitmap Index?-Indexes

Bitmap indexes are most appropriate on low distinct cardinality data (i.e., data with relatively few discrete values when compared to the cardinality of the entire set). It is not really possible to put a value on this—in other words, it is difficult to define what low distinct cardinality is truly. In a set of a Read More