Here it Luis!

Low cardinality columns have a small number of distinct values (compared to
the number of rows)

e.g. Gender, Marital Status, State,....

Regards
Phong Le


-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Cardenas
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Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 12:27 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: low cardinality value

Hey all, taking advantage of the Friday Mode, could anyone please

explain what low cardinality value means.





Thanks,

Luis









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