Chapter 05

Indexes & Query Performance

Why a slow query is usually a missing index, not a hardware problem — how B-tree indexes turn O(N) scans into O(log N) lookups.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

✦B-Tree vs Sequential scan indexing
✦Clustered vs Non-clustered indexes
✦Composite index ordering rules
✦Write performance overhead

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