Re: Bitmap Index

  • From: Shivanischal A <shivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle.tutorials@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:46:46 +0530

Hi Deepak,

Just wondering... How about "List Partitioning" if you know each of the
'distinct' values before hand?

Regards,
Shiva


On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:45, DBA Deepak wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> In my DWH DB I have a table with few million rows. I have a column in
> the table having 15 distinct values. That column is being used in the
> where clause of the queries. What I am interested to know is would it
> be beneficial to create a bitmap index on it.
> 
> Is there any specific ratio (distincy values)/(Num of rows) at which
> one must consider creating bitmap indexes rather than b-tree indexes?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Deepak
> Oracle DBA 

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