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Antonio
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Posted - 03/03/2006 :  09:58:32  Show Profile  Visit Antonio's Homepage
Good afternoon all...

I have a table containing 72 million records. It's taking a while to delete a set of records from the table. The WHERE clause in my delete statement is base on two columns with each having a separate index. Is there any advantage in creating a new index based on the two columns in order to speed up the delete process?

Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

RickD
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Posted - 03/03/2006 :  10:26:17  Show Profile
No, indexes will slow your delete down, not speed it up as each index will need to be searched and updated as well as the rows being deleted..
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Kristen
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Posted - 03/04/2006 :  01:31:59  Show Profile
See: http://sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=62356

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