Re: SQL With Dates

BETWEEN X AND Y

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Rafael Domiciano
<rafael(dot)domiciano(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello People,
>
> I have initiated a work to review the sqls of our internal software.
> Lot of them he problem are about sql logic, or join with table unecessary,
> and so on.
> But software has lot of sql with date, doing thinks like:
> [..]
>   date >= '2009-04-01' AND
>   date <= '2009-04-15'
> [..]
>
> Redoing the SQL with fix date (date = '2009-04-01') o cost in explain always
> still about 200 or less. But with a period the cost is high, about 6000 or
> more.
>
> Select is using Index and the date is using index too.
>
> There is some way to use date period with less cost?
>
> Rafael Domiciano
>

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GJ