下面我们针对这个问题做一个试验：
c:>sqlplus / as sysdba
sys@EOS >create table test as select table_name,to_timestamp(last_analyzed) date_test from dba_tables;
表已创建。
sys@EOS> create index idx_test_date on test (date_test);
索引已创建。
sys@EOS> desc test
名称 是否为空? 类型
------------------------- -------- ----------------
TABLE_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
DATE_TEST TIMESTAMP(0)
sys@EOS> select date_test from test where date_test > TO_DATE('2007-11-5 00:00:00','yyyy-MM-dd HH24:mi:ss');
执行计划
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Plan hash value: 944171586
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| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 22 | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 1 | INDEX RANGE SCAN| IDX_TEST_DATE | 1 | 22 | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
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1 - access("DATE_TEST">TIMESTAMP'2007-11-05 00:00:00')
Note
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- dynamic sampling used for this statement
统计信息
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7 recursive calls
0 db block gets
18 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
280 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
374 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
1 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
0 rows processed
从上文中大家可以清楚地看到，timestamp>date情况下，走索引。
另外，date类型一般很少用，建议大家在产品里面所有的date数据类型全部改为timestamp。
