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Re: index usage in joins q'n

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On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 11:42:39AM +0400, rihad wrote:
> Does this mean that a condition like "WHERE ... [AND] lhs.a=rhs.b [AND] 
> ..." where rhs.b is already unique-indexed, also requires (non-unique) 
> index on lhs.a for maximal join speed? Otherwise why would they want to 
> say that?

No, as long as one of the two columns is indexed it can help. An index
on both might help if you need a lot of rows but it's a bit hard to
construct a situation where it'd be obvious.

Have a nice day,
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