Re: Cost of joins?

[Martijn Tonies]

> "Martijn Tonies" <m.tonies@> >
> > Design for understanding, logic and maintenance, not performance.
> >
> > If you need more performance, throw more hardware at it -
> > a larger cache (settings -> memory), faster disks and a faster CPU.
>
> Or more indexes (which may require more hardware).

Oh yes, indices can help :-)

Indices ONLY exist for performance reasons, not for anything
else.

That being said, wouldn't it be great to have a self-tuning
database engine that would create indices after running your
database application for a few days :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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