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Advanced MySQL 8
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Advanced MySQL 8

by Eric Vanier, Birju Shah, Tejaswi Malepati
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
286 pages
7h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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What impact does an index have on MySQL performance?

Although adding indexes can help optimize the performance of your queries, adding indexes has a significant cost on MySQL performance.

In fact, when an index is added to a table, the performance of the writing is affected. Let me show you this from the music_album table. By examining the definition of the current table, you will notice a large number of indexes:

Table: music_album

By performing a simple benchmarking test, we can test the insertion rate of the current music album table with the original definition that included fewer indexes:

The following are the test results:

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