[thelist] SQL Indexes

[Scott Dexter]

I'm waiting to see what poetry Rudy has for us on this one. Hold on kids, if
he's in the mood, it'll be a doosy =) 

sgd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Keniger [mailto:rob at bigbang.net.au]

> > So what would be useful would be some general discussion of 
> what indexes are
> > and how one uses them in general - then I can go to the 
> MySQL documentation
> > and look up specific implementation.
> 
> Indexes are pre-sorted look-up tables of specific columns in 
> your database
> that are used to speed record search times.
>