Creating an index strategy

 

DB2 Universal Database™ for iSeries™ provides two basic means for accessing tables: a table scan and an index-based retrieval. Index-based retrieval is typically more efficient than table scan when less than 20% of the table rows are selected.

There are two kinds of persistent indexes: binary radix tree indexes, which have been available since 1988, and encoded vector indexes (EVIs), which became available in 1998 with V4R2. Both types of indexes are useful in improving performance for certain kinds of queries.

 

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Performance and query optimization