EBK DATABASE SYSTEM CONCEPTS
EBK DATABASE SYSTEM CONCEPTS
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Author: SILBERSCHATZ
Publisher: MCG COURSE
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Indices and its purpose:

  • Indices provide link to data with a specific value.
  • Indices also used to make the search faster.
  • Indices should not be created on every searchable attribute because of the following reasons:
    • Firstly, an index takes extra storage space in memory.
    • Index also includes additional overhead in terms of both CPU time and disk I/O at the time of insertion and deletion of records.
    • When it comes to updates, there is no need to update the index if it is not present on a primary key, but if the index is present on a non-primary key, it has to be changed with every update.
    • If the queries contain conditions for many search keys, use the indices on few of the keys which is sufficient to offer better efficiency.
    • Lastly, if there are too many indices in the database, the improvement performance is not much.

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