CHAPTER 8
Indexing Myths and Best Practices
In the past few chapters, I’ve defined indexes and showed how they are structured. In the upcoming chapters, you’ll be looking at strategies to build indexes and ensure that they behave as expected. In this chapter, I’ll dispel some common myths and show how to build the foundation for creating indexes.
Myths result in an unnecessary burden when attempting to build an index. Knowing the myths associated with indexes can prevent you from using indexing strategies that will be counterproductive. The following are the indexing myths discussed in this chapter:
- Databases don’t need indexes.
- Primary keys ...
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