24 Apr 2013

What is the Secondary index advantages and dise


ANS : ADVANTAGES :-
     A secondary index may be created and dropped dynamically
     It can be created on  any column be it unique or not unique.
    A  table may consists of up to 32 secondary indexes
DISADVANTAGES :
 They require additional i/o to maintain their sub-tables.
If  the statistics are not collected properly then the ptimiger goes for a full table scan
There is always an overhead for additional spaces, since there no sub-tables to be created

No comments:

Post a Comment