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Usage of the update statistics statement

Usage of the update statistics statement

A very strong impact on the performance has the database statistics, which provides information for the Informix optimizer.

The following steps resulted in the best performance. (But for a database with 220GB disk usage, the whole procedure needs about 2:30 hours.)

  1. Update the statistics data for the whole database with keyword medium
    e.g: update statistics medium;

  2. Update the statistics data with keyword high for all columns which are the first column for an index
    e.g.: update statistics high for table product_item (p_id);


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