I see you already have numerous replies. (I have not had time to check email since this morning) Nothing I can add to the voluminous suggestions you have received. There is a relevant AskTom article for this IIRC, but I was unable to find it earlier today. Perhaps a glass of Lagavulin will enhance my search engine queries? :) Jared On 12/6/05, Rick Stephenson <RStephenson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yes, but did not get very far in my attempts. My ideas were not > syntactically correct from the error messages I was getting, so I did not > know if it was possible. I also tried searching google and asktom to see if > I could get any light shed on the subject. > > > > Thanks for your concern, > > > > Rick Stephenson > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:52 AM > *To:* Rick Stephenson > *Cc:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: Function based indexes? > > > > Have you tried it? > > On 12/6/05, *Rick Stephenson* <RStephenson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there a way to create an index on a column and only index those where > the value meets a certain expression? For example, if I have a numeric > column, can I just have the index built for those values that equal 1? I > don't query on any other value, so I don't want to consume the space for the > other values. I am running EE 9.2.0.3. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rick Stephenson > > > > > > > -- > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist