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    indexed date

    Hi Friends,

    I am always confused about selecting columns with date datatypes and the performance associated to it
    Example:

    sql> select hiredate from EMP where hiredate='01-JAN-06';

    no rows selected.

    sql> select hiredate from EMP where trunc(hiredate)='01-JAN-06';

    hiredate
    --------
    01-JAN-06

    If I have indexed on hiredate and the EMP contains million rows...
    then it will be doing full table scan because i am
    reformatting the column with a function right?

    How can I write the query to use the index performance?


    Thanks hunnie
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    use a function based index

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    Thank you all
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    Or query for the appropriate range ...
    Code:
    select hiredate
    from EMP
    where hiredate between to_date('2006-01-01','YYYY-MM-DD') and 
    to_date('2006-01-01'||' 23:59:59','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
    (in the real world of course hire date is unlikely to have a time component, but I guess this is just an example?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by slimdave

    (in the real world of course hire date is unlikely to have a time component, but I guess this is just an example?)
    Doesnt it contain time if u default it to sysdate dear?
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    Quote Originally Posted by yxez
    Doesnt it contain time if u default it to sysdate dear?

    That would be a dumb design/coding.. you shud have used trunc(sysdate) while laoding.. makes lots of sense.
    funky...

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    Quote Originally Posted by abhaysk
    That would be a dumb design/coding.. you shud have used trunc(sysdate) while laoding.. makes lots of sense.
    +1

    In general people wouldn't have a hire date that included a component like "10:15:27" ... it would just be a date. In fact I think that it's unlikely that sysdate would be a good default for a hire date -- almost certainly that would be populated "in advance".
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    yeah dear...its just an example, actually im thinking of the encoding date
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    where hiredate >= to_date('2006-01-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
    and hiredate < to_date('2006-01-02','YYYY-MM-DD')

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    Agree with Dave :-)
    Pando, what's the difference between your query and the one proposed by Dave?

    Thanks

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