[AccessD] Indexes on text fields

OK, thanks.

Mark Whittinghill
Symphony Information Services
612-333-1311
mwhittinghill at symphonyinfo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Indexes on text fields


> Nope.  Concatenated fields are just a text string to the query engine.
> However if you dragged the last and first name out into the query (even if
> hidden), then sorted on those fields, it would sort in that order (of
> course) and indexes on those fields would speed the sort.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
>
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> Whittinghill
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> Subject: [AccessD] Indexes on text fields
>
>
> Let's say I have a Person table with FirstName and LastName fields.  Both
> are non-unique indexed to help searches.  Now say I build a query with a
> concatenated field FullName: LastName & ", " & FirstName.   Will the
indexes
> on these fields help speed searches on the FullName field?
>
> Mark Whittinghill
> Symphony Information Services
> 612-333-1311
> mwhittinghill at symphonyinfo.com
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