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kingcharles on Nov 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

Isn't that exactly what adding an index would do internally?

tyingq on Nov 7, 2021 | [–]

2002 MySQL had some limitations on indexing variable length string (varchar) columns. That's the gist of the linked story.

AdrianB1 on Nov 8, 2021 | [–]

Depending on the RDBMS system, in most cases it does not.

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