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Timeline for Efficiently finding distinct values

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Jan 25, 2012 at 21:17 comment added Bob Jansen In this case this solution has the added benefit that it's much more efficient if there is only a sorted index on (month, year, number) instead of a unique constraint. Of course YMMV.
Jan 24, 2012 at 15:33 comment added Leigh Riffel @Jack Good question, I don't know.
Jan 24, 2012 at 15:04 comment added Jack Douglas Much easier to understand, +1. Is there any danger of the CBO rewriting as a hash/merge semi-join? It never seems to do anything like that with a subquery in the select.
Jan 24, 2012 at 14:50 history edited Leigh Riffel CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 24, 2012 at 14:42 history answered Leigh Riffel CC BY-SA 3.0