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multiple indexes Vs multi column index ?

userP5Mar 19 2010 — edited Mar 19 2010
I am using oracle 10g. I have a table with huge data. There are 4 indexes on this table with combination of columns. All the indexes are created using the script like -
CREATE INDEX INDX1 ON My_TABLE
(ID, emp_NUMBER, emp_sal, emp_div)
TABLESPACE my_IDX
PCTFREE 10
INITRANS 2
MAXTRANS 255
NOLOGGING
NOPARALLEL;

CREATE INDEX INDX2 ON My_TABLE
(ID, emp_NUMBER, emp_name)
TABLESPACE my_IDX
PCTFREE 10
INITRANS 2
MAXTRANS 255
NOLOGGING
NOPARALLEL;

and so on...
Few columns are always there in every index like Id, emp_number.

Most of the select queries are using the id and emp_number in the where clause criteria's. SQL "select" performance is not very good and need to find some kinda solution to this problem .

Shall I create one index using all the columns present in various indexes instead of various indexes with different combination of the columns ?

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