Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Feb 22 11:02:15 CST 2005
If you have already indexed the field, you don't need another index defined. Just change the direction of the sort in code. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Andy Lacey [mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 7:45 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ascending/Descending Indexes - Retrying Trying again. I'm sure the answer's out there. -- Andy Lacey http://www.minstersystems.co.uk --------- Original Message -------- From: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: [AccessD] Ascending/Descending Indexes Date: 21/02/05 12:31 > > Anyone know the answer to this to save me doing a bunch of tests? > > If you need to browse a table in descending order of a field (a date > in my > case) and there's an index on that field but defined as ascending (needed > elsewhere so can't be changed) is there any benefit from defining a second, > descending index on the same field? > > -- > Andy Lacey > http://www.minstersystems.co.uk > > > ________________________________________________ > Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com