Indexes for searching

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May 22nd, 2007, 07:09 PM

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Indexes for searching

If I have a table with 10 columns, and I want to be able to search by any single column, or by any combination of the columns, would a single index including all columns be best? Or would ten indexes, one for each individual column, be preferred?

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