21.7.5.Order Status

This transaction picks the last order of a given customer. It uses a select in descending order to locate it.

This is a read only transaction. Note the use of SQL_CONCURRENCY in the client code for specifying historical read mode. This eliminates locking.

[Note] Note

The ORDER BY clause must list all key parts of the index to be used, all with either ASC or DESC ordering in order to specify that index.

This transaction could be implemented in principle using the ORDERS primary key, O_W_ID, O_D_ID, O_ID. This would read in descending order until finding a row with a given C_IC. There being 3000 customers per district this could cause an average 1500 lines to check before finding the right one. Since the distribution of O_C_ID is not even the above is not entirely correct but close enough. The other possibility is having a separate index, O_W_ID, O_D_ID, O_C_ID, O_ID for this transaction. The trade-off being 1500 serial reads against 10 random insert (10 new order per one order status) we choose to have the extra index.