CST363 Module 5

The web site "Use the Index Luke" has a page on "slow indexes".   https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/anatomy/slow-indexes Links to an external site. 

If indexes are supposed to speed up performance of query,  what is meant by a slow index? 

This page seems to define a 'slow index' as one that returns a large amount of data from an inquiry such as when a single index can simply relate to lots of data in a table, or such as when a single index has a few matches and so the system chooses to follow their table relationships down a large rabbit hole. This page used the Oracle system functions as an example. The first situation is from their TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID and the second situation is from their INDEX RANGE SCAN.

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