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3.7 Evaluators
In this section, we cover two very useful tools that we have named the Evaluators. The tools
are:
Index Evaluator
MQT Evaluator
3.7.1 Index Evaluator
Prior to V5R3, there was no easy way to determine if there were any unnecessary indexes
over a physical file or table. No information specified whether an index was used by a query
or when an index was used to give statistics to the query optimizer. The only information
available was from the Last Used Date. Unfortunately, customers erroneously used the date
to determine whether an index was used recently, and if it was ...