Thursday, September 8, 2011

How to force an Index in Sybase?

Forcing an index in a query though might be a risky operation however is sometimes useful too as if there are very similar indexes created on a table and we specfically want to use one of them then we can specify the same in the query. How? Well, pretty simple. Simply use the following syntax if you need to force an index while framing the query and Sybase Adaptiver Server will try picking up the specified index. The sql query is as follows -

select * from table_name (index index_name) where col1 = @col1 and col2 = @col2

As we can see in the above statement simply suggesting the index name will help us force an index on a table. The only catch here is that we need to be very sure that what we are doing is what is required and in case of any doubts it is better to leave the rest to Sybase server and simple design the correct query.

No comments:

Post a Comment