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Sargable

In relational databases, a condition (or predicate) in a query is said to be sargable if the DBMS engine can take advantage of an index to speed up the execution of the query. The term is derived from a contraction of Search ARGument ABLE. It was first used by IBM researchers as a contraction of Search ARGument, and has come to mean simply "can be looked…

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Sargable

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Avg. degree1.83
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related to External links · 5
Sargable → How, SQL Shack, StackExchange, T-SQL, What
related to Text example · 3
Sargable → LIKEclauses, Not, WHERE
related to Simple example · 2
Sargable → Not, WHEREclauses
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Sargable → important property in OLTP workloads because it suggests a good query plan can be obtained by a simple heuristic2 matching query to indexes instead of a complex

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Sargableis aimportant property in OLTP workloads because it suggests a good query plan can be obtained by a simple heuristic2 matching query to indexes instead of a complex0.90text
Sargablerelated to External linksSQL Shack0.60section
Sargablerelated to External linksHow0.60section
Sargablerelated to External linksT-SQL0.60section
Sargablerelated to External linksStackExchange0.60section
Sargablerelated to External linksWhat0.60section
Sargablerelated to Simple exampleWHEREclauses0.60section
Sargablerelated to Simple exampleNot0.60section
Sargablerelated to Text exampleWHERE0.60section
Sargablerelated to Text exampleLIKEclauses0.60section
Sargablerelated to Text exampleNot0.60section

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