--- "Leyne, Sean" wrote:

> Yes, unless you can combine the Boolean field with another filed which is used very commonly is your SELECTs.
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> Otherwise, you should not index a low selectivity field (boolean) the cost* of the index is not worth it.
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> Sean
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> *Cost includes several factors,, including the extra I/O operations required to maintain the index as well as the fact that the engine might want to include the field/index into a SELECT which would result in a slower performing statement.

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Thanks for the answer Sean! Probably the fact that I don't speak english very well is not helping me here... I don't have quite clear wheter it is a good idea to use the index or not...

My paricular case is a calendar with events in some days. I need to select the pending events. They will be always, lets say, less than 100, while the table, as the the years pass will grow a lot with the old (not pending) events...

So, in my case, makes sense to have an index on the "pending" field (which is smallint and can store 0 or 1)

Sorry fo insist with the question!!! and thanks again for your help!!

-sergio