Re: [PERFORM] Buld Insert and Index use.

2004-08-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Rudi, > Do you think an Index or Seq. scan should be used? That was way too much data for way too simple a question. ;-) The answer is: depends on how many rows you have. With any significant number of rows, yes. However, you probably only need to index the first 3-5 columns; that's selecti

[PERFORM] Buld Insert and Index use.

2004-08-11 Thread Rudi Starcevic
Hi, This email is picking up a thread from yesterday on INSERTS and INDEXES. In this case the question is to use and index or a sequential scan. I have included the db DDL and SELECT query. For each month I have a csv data dump of council property data. So the First CD will have almost all unique r