Permanent objects and access methods

 

The database objects and access methods used by the query engine can be broken down into three basic types of operations that are used to manipulate the permanent and temporary objects -- Create, Scan, and Probe.

The following table lists each object and the access methods that can be performed against that object. The symbols shown in the table are the icons used by Visual Explain.

Table 1. Permanent object's data access methods
Permanent objects Scan operations Probe operations
Table Table scan Table probe
Radix index Radix index scan Radix index probe
Encoded vector index Encoded vector index symbol table scan Encoded vector index probe

 

Parent topic:

Data access on DB2 UDB for iSeries: data access paths and methods