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sent_sara
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

377 Posts

Posted - 2009-02-17 : 14:16:52

What are the "trade-offs" to be considered when adding indexes to a large table on a heavily used OLTP system?

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2009-02-17 : 14:18:47
The trade-off is performance on DML operations.

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