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ruodeer
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Hello everyone,
her is the Index defination:
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| ( C1 ASC, C2 DESC,C3 ASC) |
I am confused about the following two predicate
which will result in a order:
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where c1='A' order by C2 ASC,C3 DESC
where c1='A' order by C1 ASC,C2 ASC |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| which will result in a order: |
Please clarify your question.
Both will return rows in the specified order.
I also do not understand why this "( C1 ASC, C2 DESC,C3 ASC) " was posted. |
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mytags
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hi,
It will get displayed by ascending order of c2 and descending order of C3 i think your confusion is got over now.
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| It will get displayed by ascending order of c2 and descending order of C3 |
Not necessarily - that depends on which code is used - 2 separate situations are posted. . .
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| i think your confusion is got over now. |
I believe you've only added confusion. |
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ruodeer
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Dick & mytags,thanks for your kindly reply.
sorry for confusion.
let me try to clarify:
saying I want to query three columns on a table , to avoid sorts, the DBA has defined an index by specifying
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which of the following will result in a sort?
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where c1='A' order by C2 ASC,C3 DESC
where c1='A' order by C1 ASC,C2 ASC |
hopefully I am clear ,thanks! |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| which of the following will result in a sort? |
Both of them - neither can be met by the index directly. |
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ruodeer
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thanks Dick,actually I got this question on a DB2 certification test sample , and the answer is
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| where c1='A' order by C2 ASC,C3 DESC |
may not result a sort, and I donot understand the answer so I put the question here, thank you anyway.
So as per my unserstanding only the
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| ORDER BY C1 ASC, C2 DESC,C3 ASC |
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| ORDER BY C1 DESC, C2 ASC,C3 DESC |
can avoid a sort right? |
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enrico-sorichetti
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let' s get rid of the confusion,
whether it is an interview question or a real scenario is irrelevant
but just take a decision Yourself
just use a bit of logic
if the table has been defined with an index in descending order
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and later on You run a query asking for the same column in ascending order
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then...
a sort will/might be performed but as usual it depends...
on other untold constraints |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| may not result a sort |
I suppose it is possible that the optimizer, in some rare situation, could decide that a sort was not needed, but in general, a sort will be needed to satisfy the SELECT.
As Enrico mentioned, "other untold constraints" can have an impact. |
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ruodeer
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| Ok, thank you Enrico and Dick ,now I get the general idea :-) |
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