On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 11:38, Nick Barr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create an index on the year of a date field, to speed up
> some queries. Table structure is as follows
If, for example, you want all records where item_created_start_date
in calendar year 2001, why not create the index on i_c_s_d and say
WHERE item_created_start_date between '2001-01-01' and '2001-12-31'
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