Sybase 12.4.2 - Manual (Page 158)

Creating Adaptive Server IQ indexes
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• Because indexes are compact, more data can be kept in memory for
subsequent queries, thereby speeding throughput on iterative analysis.
• Tuning is data-dependent, allowing data to be optimized once for any
number of ad hoc queries.
Creating Adaptive Server IQ indexes
You can create a column index explicitly using either the CREATE INDEX
statement or Sybase Central. These two methods are discussed in the sections
that follow.
The CREATE INDEX statement
To create an Adaptive Server IQ column index, use this syntax:
CREATE [ UNIQUE ] [ index-type ] INDEX index-name
... ON [ owner.]table-name
... ( column-name )
... [ { IN | ON } dbspace-name ]
... [ NOTIFY integer ]
If you do not specify an index-type, Adaptive Server IQ creates an HG index.
Several front-end tools create an HG index automatically for this reason.
Examples The first example creates a High_Non_Group ( HNG ) index called ship_ix on
the ship_date column of the sales_order_items table.
CREATE HNG INDEX ship_ix
ON dbo.sales_order_items (ship_date)
The second example creates a Low_Fast index called sales_order_region on the
region column of the sales_order table.
CREATE LF INDEX sales_order_region
ON dbo.sales_order (region)
By default, after every 100,000 records are inserted and loaded into indexes,
you receive a progress message. To change the number of records, specify the
NOTIFY option of CREATE INDEX . To prevent these messages, specify NOTIFY
0 .