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Binary index
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From
01/05/2017 07:41:56
 
 
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01/05/2017 01:34:33
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01650694
Message ID:
01650720
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>>>>Does anyone use binary indexes?
>>>>As ?
>>>
>>>Not here... unless the index is very skewed leaving only a few records with the values you're searching for, it is not of much benefit
>>
>>I do not know how to use them.
>>SET ORDER and SEEK are not usable
>
>According to the helpfile those commands are not supported for binary indexes.
>Its only useful for rushmore for rushmore optizmizable commands like LOCATE FOR, BROWSE FOR, CALCULATE FOR, SQL SELECT, Etc
>
>And for that, in general, it is quite useles anyways, so I do not bother with it.

I think a better way to express it would be to say, benefit of creating an index on binary choices has to be questioned.
If there is a clear use case to filter on such distribution, "binary" makes such an index "profitable"
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