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mjackson1111-Nov-09 3:28
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We have very large tables of price data that need to be searched efficiently.   The table consists of

id - bigint (Primary Key w/ clustered index)
iCurve - bigint - links to a small table defining price curves
dtFwdDate - forward date
dtEffDate - effective date
fValue - price

The usual search is
SELECT fValue FROM table WHERE iCurve = 1 AND dtFwdDate='01/01/2010' AND dtEffDate='11/11/2009'

I created an index that keys on iCurve, dtFwdDate, dtEffDate and includes fValue.

It works okay but the index size is now larger than the data.

We have to update this table daily with very large numbers of data points (100,000+)

Questions -

What is the best way to index this table for fast searches?
How can we keep the index size small?
How can we optimize this so insertions are not painful?

In terms of performance, I would rather have performance problems inserting data.

thx

Mark Jackson
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