by Federico Razzoli | Jun 11, 2021 | MariaDB
MariaDB introduced ignored Indexes in version 10.6. The feature is substantially very similar to MySQL Invisible Indexes (docs), introduced in version 8.0. Here we’ll see how to use Ignored Indexes drop indexes in production with a reasonable risk. See our...
by Federico Razzoli | Jun 8, 2021 | MariaDB, MySQL
Indexes are designed to speed up queries against a table. However, they come with a cost: every time a INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statement is executed against a table, its indexes must be updated. And since indexes are ordered data structures, updating them is more...