DB-12 - Pick An Index, Any Index

Michael Lonski Allegro Consultants, LTD.

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Who I Am
Started working with Progress v3 (1986)

Founded Allegro Consultants in 1993

Internationally recognized speaker

Author of Coding Smart book on ADM2

Punster and Frequent Talker

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And Why I Am Here

Overview index rules

Practical tools, not bookish theory

Focus on fact, not guesswork

Compile time information

Run-time information Show off skill at alliteration

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Predict

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Hierarchy For A Single Index

1. Unique index with all components 2. 3. 4. 5.

6.

involved in the equality matches Most active equality matches Most active range matches Most active sort matches First index alphabetically by index name The primary index
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Multiple Index Usage

If indexes are available for both sides of

WHERE... AND/OR, more than one index can be used Multiple indexes will *only* be used to assist in bracketing records

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WHEREAND
WHERE clause includes the use of AND

All components of each index are

involved in equality matches No unique indexes are involved

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WHEREOR
WHERE clause includes the use of OR

Both the left and right side of the OR

contain at least the lead component of an index These lead components are involved in either equality or range matches

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Predict
Prevent

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Breaking The Rules

USE-INDEX

FIND WHERE ROWID ( ) =

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Breaking The Index

WHERE NOT WHERE Family.CoveredOnBenefits

WHERE MATCHES WHERE IF THEN = vcInput WHERE SUBSTRING () = A ELSE TRUE

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Predict
Prevent

Plan

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XREF Information
COMPILE prog.p XREF prog.xref

FOR EACH
FIND

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Demo XREF-demo.p

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XREF Information
COMPILE prog.p XREF prog.xref

CREATE
DEFINE Query

Query
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Demo Query-demo.p

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Predict
Prevent

Plan
Prove

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If A Query Could Talk

What did I use?

Did I error?

qryCust Did I bracket?

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How To Ask
DEFINE VARIABLE vhQryCust AS HANDLE CREATE QUERY vhQryCust

DEFINE QUERY qCust QUERY qCust: qryCust vhQryCust = QUERY qCust:HANDLE

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What to Ask
What did I use? vhQry:INDEX-INFORMATION()

Did I error? ERROR-STATUS:NUM-MESSAGES

Did I bracket? qryCust ENTRY(1, vhQry:I-I) = WHOLEINDEX

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Demo wQueryTest.w

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Predict
Prevent

Plan
Prove Process

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OpenEdge 10 Log Manager

New features in OpenEdge 10

Both command-line and run-time controls

Highly configurable

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Log Manager Controls

Command Line
-clientlog -logentrytypes -logginglevel -numlogfiles -logthreshold

LOG-MANAGER
:LOGFILE -NAME :LOG-ENTRY-TYPES :LOGGING-LEVEL :NUM-LOG-FILES :LOG-THRESHOLD

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Demo Logging-demo.p

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Now that Ive rambled on, are there any questions?

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Thanks for attending

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