Yes, indexing will definately help SQL SELECTs, but the search criteria has to exactly match the index. I explain this in more detail in the Rushmore article on my website.
BTW, how are things in Lethbridge? My wife's family is from the area.
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>I have a very basic indexing question that I should probably know the answer to but I don't. I know that indexing is great for when using the seek command and things like that. But does indexing also speed up sql statements? Say we have a table called employee and have an index on "emp_no". Then we have an SQL statement, 'select * from employee where emp_no > "500"' If we had an index would the query run faster?
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>Its not big deal, I was just curious.
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>Chris
Craig Berntson
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