From: Martijn Tonies
Date: April 11 2007 5:43pm
Subject: Re: Can I create a index on a column of Type datetime?
List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/206068
Message-Id: <031b01c77c60$f2993520$9902a8c0@martijnws>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="gb2312"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



> I will very often do query like this:
>
> select * from mytable where create_date >='...' and create_date <='....'
>
> can I create a index on the column create_date?

Have you tried it?

> what is the best practise?

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, NexusDB, Oracle &
MS SQL Server
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com
My thoughts:
http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/
Database development questions? Check the forum!
http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com