I’ve written in the past about oddities with descending indexes ( here, here, and here, for example) but I’ve just come across a case where I may have to introduce a descending index that really shouldn’t need to exist. As so often happens it’s at the boundary where two Oracle features collide. I have a table that handles data for a large number of customers, who record a reasonable number of transactions per year, and I have a query that displays the most recent transactions for a customer.
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