Mar 17, 2016

More about Indexes

In B tree index single column indexes do not include entries for null values ; but bitmap and function based index can store all null entries .
Multi column indexes will store null values but only if at least one column is not null


1) If all columns contain null values , the entry will not be stored in the index

2) Adding a frequently null valued column to an index can impact performance by allowing the index to filter the nulls

3) If range scanning a column ie: < or >  , put those columns at the end of the composite index

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