How to use Composite Indexes

By Gert Nelissen on 13 June 2014

You might be a developer like me. You might also wander around in the deep and dark layers of relational database systems. You might've been face to face with this thing some call a composite index.

Why are you talking in this denigrating tone?

Because in the fairly limited experience I have, I have seen some grave cases of index abuse. Of them, badly designed composite indexes - or multi-column indexes - were always the most aggravating ones.

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