Can Multiple Indexes Work Together?

Question

Suppose I have a database table with two fields, \"foo\" and \"bar\". Neither of them are unique, but each of them are indexed. However, rather than being indexed together, th

Answer 1

So is Oracle smart enough to search efficiently here?

The simple answer is "probably". There are lots'o' very bright people at each of the database vendors working on optimizing the query optimizer, so it's probably doing things that you haven't even thought of. And if you update the statistics, it'll probably do even more.